Example sentences of "for [adv] a [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who did receive schooling did so for perhaps a year or two , often much less , at some point in their childhood , with hardly any attending school beyond the age of ten or eleven . |
| 2 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 3 | It is a surprising answer , and we have known and understood it for only a century or so . |
| 4 | She hesitated for only a second or two , then without looking around , she ripped the ties from the front flaps and stepped outside . |
| 5 | Near its edge the dark , wet sand was a sheen on which footsteps kept their shape for only a minute or two . |
| 6 | You could then include a breeding pond ( occupied for only a fortnight or so each year ) . |
| 7 | ‘ He was Rainer Schickert for only a year and a few months — and mostly in hiding . |
| 8 | Although 20 per cent go out into the country once a week , the study showed that less than half of the population are monthly visitors and 80 per cent of visits are for only a day or less . |
| 9 | He himself was here for only a day or two . |
| 10 | Ed and Matthew stayed at Peter 's for only a week and then they were off on their own . |
| 11 | We delayed it for only a moment or two , remembering the fluffy chick waiting below for its supper of regurgitated fish . |
| 12 | Even Mira is within range for only a month or two out of its total period of 331 days ; at minimum it sinks to magnitude 10 , so that it is lost even with a small telescope . |
| 13 | The children have been back at school for only a month and already I am exhausted . |
| 14 | According to that theory everything exists for only an instant and is then replaced by a facsimile of itself , so that it is but a series of momentary existences like the successive frames in a cine-camera film . |
| 15 | The concept of entities that appear for only an instant and then disappear was used by Buddhists to prove that all is merely appearance and that absolute reality does not fall within the domain of the intellect . |
| 16 | Marinate for only an hour or so in the same marinade as before or use just olive oil , lemon juice salt and freshly ground black pepper . |
| 17 | It was there for just a second or two , then it moved away quickly . |
| 18 | Now , if any of you get terribly tense at the back of shoulders which we all seem to do nowadays , if you come for just a back and shoulder massage , we actually work on the back of the neck and along the shoulders using massage movements which helps to relax you , which helps to actually break down the lactic acid that builds up in the muscles that causes you pain . |
| 19 | I was at Leeds and Newcastle for just a year and you did n't have time to get your boots dirty . ’ |
| 20 | And now that I 'm home for good , at least my bookings abroad will be for just a week or so at a time , that 's all , well … we 're coming together . |
| 21 | He had been a share salesman for just a week and a half , and the deal put £200 in his pocket . |
| 22 | Members can also choose how long they wish to stay at the ‘ weekend ’ , whether for just a morning or afternoon or for the whole day-and-a-half . |
| 23 | He would stay for just an hour or so and then gather up the equipment and disappear . |
| 24 | She went to sit on the sofa , and there she dreamed of Johnny , tenderly and with affection ; she thought of the words that he had said , and they made a warm spot , infinitely sweet , deep inside her where it could not be touched ; for just an hour or two , she began to believe that she truly loved him . |
| 25 | For Denny has been on the local comedy circuit for nearly a decade and was a runner-up in the Scouseology Awards two years ago . |
| 26 | Margaret had been seeing him for nearly a year and Maura had the feeling that they were going to get married . |
| 27 | For nearly a century and a half after the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 there was a tendency for the ratio of casualties to total numbers engaged in West European wars to fall and for that of prisoners to dead and wounded to rise . |
| 28 | Statajack was David 's first win for nearly a month and the big time could come with Seattle Rhyme who reappears against Derby third Silver Wizard and Jeune at Kempton on Saturday . |
| 29 | He had been immersed in the clean up work for nearly a month and he wanted to be with friends who restore and collect aircraft and who could empathise more fully than most with him about the size of the task and who also might offer some constructive ideas ‘ At first I was in shock , it was too much to comprehend ’ , shared Kermit . |
| 30 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |