Example sentences of "it for [adv] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Since the approach was fairly new to all interviewed ( none had been operating it for more than nine months ) the responses may have more to do with expectations than experience , but nevertheless they serve to sketch out the potential of the care programme approach to affect every aspect of mental health care , for good or ill . |
2 | Nails concentrated hard and found the stride about once in every two circles , but could not keep with it for more than two or three strides before he lost his balance and came down while Midnight was coming up . |
3 | If you imagine it for more than two or three minutes , you start crying . ’ |
4 | Of those firms which did possess such a strategy , a quarter had not reviewed it for more than two years , making it only mildly effective . |
5 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
6 | You look at Lauren Hutton , who 's been doing it for more than 20 years . |
7 | There appears to be no significant risk to women who take it for less than five years but the risk does increase slightly between five and ten years , and taking it for more than 15 years gives a higher risk still . |
8 | This was encouraged by the traditional view of a skilled man as one who learned his trade by the age of 21 and thereafter practised it for more than forty years until he retired at 65 . |
9 | There appears to be no significant risk to women who take it for less than five years but the risk does increase slightly between five and ten years , and taking it for more than 15 years gives a higher risk still . |
10 | He had bought it for less than seventeen thousand and had spent five thousand on it to date , expecting to sell it for at least forty . |
11 | ‘ No , ’ Barry concluded , ‘ there 's no way to do it for less than six hundred dollars . ’ |
12 | Ken 's last wish was that his coffin should be carried by six Athletico players but I could not find a single one of the bastards who would do it for less than fifty quid . |
13 | If the pen 's barrel is not cracked and the lever is capable of movement then it should be possible to repair it for less than twenty pounds . |
14 | In that case the buyer of a new Nissan car had had it for less than three weeks and had made two or three short journeys in it for the purpose of trying it out , before the engine seized up because of a latent manufacturing fault . |