Example sentences of "and [verb] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having publicly backed his wife 's move , Mr Ozal now finds himself at odds with the party he founded and led for more than six years as prime minister . |
| 2 | Today US-registered vessels make up only one-third of the fleet , and account for less than 16 per cent of the total number of dolphin deaths . |
| 3 | With World War II came one more hit , Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary ? ( 1944 ) , which Lynn produced and played for more than two years at the Duke of York 's Theatre and a further two years on tour . |
| 4 | And look for long and , like one of Cézanne 's views of the Mediterranean , the water seems as much a vertical blue screen as a horizontal lake . |
| 5 | It 's long and straight and takes for ever but eventually we get to the outskirts of Newbury . |
| 6 | She must see that he was comfortable and cared for so that with contentment would come peace . |
| 7 | The Irish Union legislation ( see pp.19–21 above ) had provided that the churches should be united and established for ever and the new Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland established apparently on that basis . |
| 8 | To have and hold for ever and for ay … |
| 9 | If we now divide by the total concentration and substitute for then or |
| 10 | They scrambled onto the upturned hull and drifted for more than 20 minutes before coming to rest on a bank two miles away . |
| 11 | I could n't even walk as fast as the kids , and standing for more than five minutes was impossible . |
| 12 | May we experience the joy of your presence in our midst , for you live and reign as Lord of all , one God to be praised and glorified for ever and ever . |
| 13 | It certainly generated neither the furore nor the hype that surrounded the original big budget epic ‘ The Guinness Trial ’ , which boasted an all-star cast , an intricate cloak and dagger plot , and ran for more than three years . |
| 14 | Dr Tehyi Hsieh and I remained friends and corresponded for more than two decades . |
| 15 | Malariologists have used good synthetic anti-malarial drugs such as amodiaquine , chloroquine , proguanil , primaquine and pyrimethamine for more than 30 years now ( Table 2 ) . |
| 16 | About 70 per cent of Russian industry , according to Yel'tsin , was run by all-union ministries , and central rather than republican institutions owned 87 per cent of capital stock in the republic and accounted for more than 90 per cent of Russian exports . |