Example sentences of "for [adv] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They trudged along the Overclyst road for perhaps half a mile , and then turned down a lane on the left . |
| 2 | It was increasingly argued that unnecessary State control of personal and community affairs was wrong in principle , serving merely to weaken the capacity of the individual to enhance life chances ; arguments not heard for perhaps half a century were rehearsed . |
| 3 | Vernon remained silent for perhaps half a minute . |
| 4 | He flinches for only half a second , but it 's enough to take me inside the hall . |
| 5 | Cheryl gazed for only half a minute . |
| 6 | The hours of London tailors were fixed by statute , but the journeymen could still complain that the masters called upon them for only half a day , leaving them in their public houses all morning . |
| 7 | If such stipulations are made for so mundane a practice as motoring , they would seem to be reasonable precautions for protecting our environment for the rest of time from possible damage by man-made creatures . |
| 8 | A generation later , another , bound for so great a centre of civilisation as Paris , still found it necessary to take with him sixty boxes of household goods and twenty of food , seven or eight dozen chairs and armchairs , a coach , a chaise and twenty horses . |
| 9 | This is a bizarre lapse for so successful a man . |
| 10 | The façade is pierced by five doorways filled with bronze doors , some of which are remarkably new for so ancient a building . |
| 11 | Faced with the crisis of inner city decay , for that was really the problem of mid-19th century Paris , many of today 's governments could wish for so favourable a conjuncture . |
| 12 | It also had quite a large choir for so small a Church , a photo taken in the twenties showing the choir outside the old Church with Mrs Still 's husband and son . |
| 13 | trills , very loud for so small a bird . ’ |
| 14 | It was a big job for so small a number of men . |
| 15 | No real life shop could support so many assistants for so small a stock , but how the audience loved this bevy of beauties who bowed , and sidestepped , in stately fashion ( the great stunning picture hats for Jubilee Year would not appear until Act Two — not reach their apogee until Act Three ) . |
| 16 | You should never have been so eager to pay so much for so poor a privilege . ’ |
| 17 | The meeting stented £10 for the Directors of the Royal Infirmary of Glasgow , " wishing to Contribute for so laudable a Plan , " and a like sum next year . |
| 18 | Adam and Rufus Fletcher , for instance , though both white , Caucasian and of more or less Anglo-Saxon-Celtic-Norse-Norman ancestry , were very dissimilar in appearance , Adam being slight and white-skinned with a lot of bushy ( now receding ) dark hair , while Rufus was burly and fair with curiously sharp , pointed features for so fleshy a man . |
| 19 | If this is the case , the argument for so narrow a definition of sexual intercourse would seem hard to sustain . |
| 20 | His tread was firm , his aspect manly ; his voice was clear but rather high pitched for so splendid a body . |
| 21 | Oddly for so fluent a man he wrote his sermons and he also prayed with his eyes open , which added to the impact of his public prayer . |
| 22 | As Ivan Nagy , the Russian-trained Hungarian dancer who runs English National Ballet , points out , to produce four great artists like Nureyev , Makarova , Baryshnikov and Mukhamedov in 30 years is not a great striking rate for so huge a nation . |
| 23 | I ca n't bear you should risk all your future prospects for so unworthy a creature . |
| 24 | It was a triumph of planning in so short a time for so complicated a matter , most of it carried through in most places within a year or two years of the passing of the act . |
| 25 | Though the evidence for so precise a statement is not at all clear , he does also present two pieces of documentary evidence which appear to provide at least a probable terminus post and ante quem respectively for the appointment . |
| 26 | Milan has few fountains for so Mediterranean a city and this one , the oldest , was itself only built in 1782 to a design by Piermarini . |
| 27 | Whether this has any significant effect upon the vine 's growth has yet to be determined but it is true that the light in Champagne is exceptional for so northern a latitude . |
| 28 | Was her waist just a shade too stiff for so massive a skirt ? |
| 29 | In Champagne , the Chardonnay is a strong growing variety which buds early , making it susceptible to spring frosts , but which also ripens in good time for so northerly a wine . |
| 30 | Only in per capita wealth did the town have a slight edge , and then perhaps less decisively than might be expected for so important a centre . |