Example sentences of "for a [adj] time the " in BNC.

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1 For a limited time the Abbey National is offering 8.65 per cent — 9.4 per cent APR — fixed until the year 2000 .
2 Resentful at Alexander and fearful that the King might beget am heir by his new queen and so lose for a second time the opportunity to advance the claims of his own house ?
3 For a long time the dominant view in anthropology was that the State was a beneficial institution .
4 For a long time the building was attributed to Inigo Jones , something people much enjoy doing .
5 For a long time the only way in which a truly selfless behaviour could arise seemed to be through a differential advantage accruing to groups of individuals that showed sacrifice in relation to their companions to a degree greater than in other groups .
6 He loved life , and for a long time the force was with him .
7 For a long time the peat has been used as fuel by the more isolated farmers , or crofters , in the north-west .
8 For a long time the sound of the men chopping wood stayed with us .
9 For a long time the lords of the manor of Thornholme were the St Quintins of Harpham , an early St Quintin having married into the de Stuteville family .
10 Wordsworth continues to watch , but for a long time the figure refuses to move .
11 For a long time the Drus were passed off as a mere shoulder of the greater Aiguille Verte .
12 Yet for a long time the Cult of Pleasure was respectable and none connected it with the hidden worship of Chaos .
13 For a long time the type remained quite insignificant , but in recent years the increasing attention has added many new varieties , and a few miniature standards are also now available .
14 For a long time the professionals had a preference for a pruning knife over secateurs .
15 Probably the original intention was merely to contrast the procedure with that of a public inquiry ( where , of course , the inquiry is in full view of the public ) but for a long time the bogy of officials beavering away in private and then producing a report which damned some poor individual or organisation , without those officials being in any way accountable , was viewed with grave suspicion .
16 Eventually , the bloody turf wars ceased , and for a long time the authorities either winked at their illegal trade or even helped themselves to the till .
17 Signora Silvana Ciammarughi , the owner and creator of this unique establishment , nursed for a long time the dream of acquiring some old house of character , converting it and running it as a hotel .
18 It was , for a long time the only cultural input into my life .
19 For a long time the hardware available for handwriting recognition was such that the input would take place on a graphics tablet , while the visual feedback appeared on a monitor screen .
20 In the modern Hebrew Bible all numbers are written out in full , but for a long time the text was written without vowels .
21 For a long time the courts have , without objection from Parliament , supplemented procedure laid down in legislation where they have found that to be necessary for this purpose .
22 For a long time the courts have , without objection from Parliament , supplemented procedure laid down in legislation where they have found that to be necessary for this purpose .
23 But Joseph had always been very devoted to any local news and for a long time the talk of the town had been the Cockermouth man — Fletcher Christian 's — Mutiny .
24 For a long time the boy maintained a defiant silence and did n't look at his father .
25 For a long time the furious rhythms of the storm and the grunting of the exhausted men around them were the only sounds to be heard inside the hut .
26 For a long time the standard has been stuck at 300 dots per inch — the eye can not resolve a single do smaller than this , or so the theory goes — but we are now beginning to see 400dpi , 600dpi and 800dpi printers .
27 For a long time the lawyer called almost every day .
28 For a long time the use of probabilistic information in linguistic systems has been frowned upon by the linguistic community .
29 I accept that the number of immigration officers at Heathrow has increased , but for a long time the numbers employed were well below what was required .
30 Some of the larger aircraft were transferred to the parking area at Amman airport , for a long time the only point from which Iraq could be entered from abroad , as foreign airlines were hesitant about using traditional air corridors which ran close to a war zone .
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