Example sentences of "for [adv] [adv] as [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great train was standing there , faintly hissing , silver , immensely heavy , stretching away in both directions for as far as one could see in the gloom . |
| 2 | There has been no love lost between Scots and English at big sporting occasions for as long as one can remember , but it seems that England 's rugby aficionados find it hard to forgive Scotland for that Grand Slam defeat in 1990 . |
| 3 | They may get away with a trick or two , but only for as long as nobody is watching too closely . |
| 4 | Medium shots come between these two extremes , and the length of their stay is generally decided by the action ; the shot is held for as long as something interesting is going on or being said . |
| 5 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 6 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
| 7 | Apart from resleeving the cylinders around three decades ago , it has continued to function satisfactorily for as long as anyone cares to remember ! |
| 8 | Nether Stowey — usually known in Coleridge 's day , and since , simply as Stowey — had called itself a town for as long as anyone could remember , but by the late eighteenth century it was in reality no more than a large , straggling village whose inhabitants numbered fewer than six hundred . |
| 9 | The feudal Prussian Junkers , whose estates had limped on for as long as anyone could remember , were hit particularly hard by the Corridor . |
| 10 | Britain had exercised tight control over the entry of aliens for as long as anyone could remember and , anyway , there had been little contact between Germany and Britain for at least nine months . |
| 11 | For as long as anyone could remember the council had been overwhelmingly Labour , and all the MPs came from the ranks of the party . |
| 12 | The Halflings have lived in rural areas of the Empire for as long as anyone can remember , but it was not until the year 1010 that they were granted the lands around the upper Aver as their permanent home . |
| 13 | A Whalby and his son had been there for as long as anyone could remember and Dadda used sometimes to boast on his good days that Alfred Osborn Tace had himself been a customer and that Whalbys had re-covered the seats of the Hepplewhite chairs at Chesney Hall . |