Example sentences of "for [adv] [det] [subord] a " in BNC.

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1	I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour .
2	I have seldom , before or since , seen a man spend so much time with his car , be so obsessive about it , put so much work into it , understand it so well and be so unable to divert his attention from it for so much as a minute .
3	Not only did Shearer fail to score , but Monkou also refused him licence for so much as a solitary shot at goal .
4	The questions she had feared earlier seemed to be taking physical shape in the shadowy corners of the room , phantoms waiting to trap her if she dropped her guard for so much as a second .
5	They get between me and my patients , at any time , for so much as a nanosecond , and they 're out , I do n't care what it does to their scheduling . ’
6	This gives a jumble of echoes that will sometimes persist for as much as a few seconds after the original sound has ceased .
7	Because it 's been linked to so many other illnesses like heart disease and ulcers , stress is thought to indirectly account for as much as a third of all U S health-care costs .
8	‘ For as little as a copper coin , I will utter a howl guaranteed to wake the dead . ’
9	EC beef exported to west Africa sells for as little as a quarter of the price shoppers in Britain must pay .
10	They borrow from the banks for as little as a few hours ' notice of recall by the banks ( money at call ) , and lend to the government , local authorities and firms for typically three months ( bills of exchange ) .
11	He paused and the meeting observed a thirty-second silence in honour of Richard Fairley who had left the partnership a year previously for considerably more than a handful of silver , taking with him Regina Securities ' main reason for being interested in paying Yeo Davis 's bills .

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