Example sentences of "for [adj] a [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any material which runs for half a minute or so is worth considering , and you can stretch these times to any length by repeat-recording them nose-to-tail for as many times as needed to make up the required length . |
| 2 | Plan to take your team away for half a day or a day . |
| 3 | People who are n't staying at the centre can book for half a day or day long activity sessions too . |
| 4 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 5 | John Hales of Coventry , a bitter opponent of enclosures , wrote in 1549 that the bulk of them had occurred before the accession of Henry VII , and the Italian historian Polydore Vergil ( probably writing about 1530 ) , said of the proceedings of 1517 , that for half a century or more previously , sheep-farming nobles had tried to find devices to increase the income of their lands , and that to this end they had destroyed dwelling-houses and filled up the land with animals . |
| 6 | Stalls were set up to a considerable depth on either side of the main road , which swelled out like a sausage shaped balloon for half a mile or so and then closed in again . |
| 7 | ‘ You just keep on for half a mile or so and 't is up on your left . |
| 8 | She takes her greyhound for walks , and the animal becomes , tactfully , briefly , for half a paragraph or so , something more than just a dog . |
| 9 | All the windows that side o' the 'ouse shattered and then there was just silence for 'alf a minute or so . |
| 10 | The second exception is where an agent receives a commission or discount from a third party and it is the usual practice of the business in which the agent operates for such a commission or discount to be paid . |