Example sentences of "it [verb] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it goes for ever and ever |
| 2 | IBM 's famous opinion survey is alive and well , running every second year , as it has for more than 20 years . |
| 3 | In all eight cases the diarrhoea continued for over 21 days , in five it persisted for more than three months . |
| 4 | Returning now to the dualist 's notion of invariant content and variable style , we can retain what is good in this distinction by refining it to allow for more than one level of stylistic variation . |
| 5 | Another cherry , the double pink Kiku-shidare Sakura , no longer weeps gracefully over the terrace pond as it did for more than 20 years . |
| 6 | Suffice it to say for now that the premises underlying Anisminic are made explicit , at least for those institutions within Lord Diplock 's first category . |
| 7 | Mr Hobbs said the loss of the Chicago service was a ‘ real blow ’ for Stansted , although it accounted for less than two per cent of the airport 's traffic . |
| 8 | The land tax accounted for the lion 's share of total government revenue throughout the 1870s and 1880s , and it was only towards the end of the century that it accounted for less than 50 per cent of tax income . |
| 9 | This was called McNamara 's Fence , and it stretched for more than 100 kilometres between the two parts of the country . |