Example sentences of "it [verb] for [art] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DOS version is even cheaper — it goes for a very reasonable £59 . |
| 2 | They were n't so much being difficult as simply teasing , and it made for a very amusing if unproductive hour . |
| 3 | It allows for a very discriminating approach to the question . |
| 4 | From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin . |
| 5 | Then , as we saw in the previous chapter , it was introduced in Scotland in 1989 and in England and Wales in 1990 , but it lasted for a very short period . |