Example sentences of "it [prep] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 2 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 3 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 4 | Besides , he 'd never be able to sustain it for more than a minute or two . |
| 5 | If they 've had it for more than a month , encourage them to get out for some fresh air but not too much vigorous exercise . |
| 6 | For space close to the king was limited , and few occupied it for more than a decade or so , partly through accidents of mortality , partly through a career-structure in which the holding of high office in the royal household was often the prelude to a provincial post , but most of all through the play of faction around the king . |
| 7 | After I come back to take over the club again , you wo n't be in it for more than a week or two at a time . ’ |
| 8 | We have been planning it for more than a year . |
| 9 | Rewarded with a seat on the Privy Council , he held it for less than a month , dying of apoplexy 20 July 1675 . |
| 10 | Brazil 's pro-privatisation rhetoric needs to be supported by much further change in policy and practice to turn it into more than a minor curiosity in its history . |
| 11 | " Give him three ounces of this immediately in a pint of water , then follow it with one and a half ounces night and morning and let us know if he is n't a lot better in two days . " |
| 12 | Linen was the most popular cloth of the period but no way had been found to bleach it to better than a dirty white colour and even that could be achieved only by up to eighteen months of processing . |
| 13 | And , they 've actually rated it at ten and a half thousand erm payable |
| 14 | Indeed , they had reckoned German strength in the area to be at most one corps although British Intelligence had estimated it at three and a half corps and even this , in the event , proved an underestimate . |