Example sentences of "for [det] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Individuality counts for little as the nurse in the antenatal clinic brightly calls us ‘ Mother ’ , and the doctor treats us as if we were half-witted .
2 ‘ I think they can make a much more plausible case for this than the invasion of Grenada [ in 1983 ] or the Dominican Republic in the Sixties , ’ said an American university law professor , Mr Robert Goldman .
3 There is a particular need for this if the school programme concentrates on reading-scheme materials that do not offer the narrative , emotional , or language rewards of ‘ real ’ books .
4 Not all the the MPs are voting for this because a lot of people ca n't have work , let alone have a pay increase .
5 I note that the C E C is opposing this , but I feel that maybe they 've missed the points and the branch should actually take some responsibility for this because the wording could be better , we concede that point .
6 Occasions occurred for this when the manager was sacked and when the admission charges were put up .
7 A survey would establish once and for all whether the coal they are taking out is paying its way and whether the pit has a future . ’
8 Hence , one may be able to work out the broad effect of interdependencies once and for all when the strategy is set .
9 Well if that 's the case it must be sorted out once and for all if the club is to go forward .
10 The Seamen 's United lasted for less than a decade .
11 It can last for less than a day or up to three days , varying with individuals , breed , age , degree of contact with a male and geographical location .
12 Now it accounts for less than a quarter .
13 The Crnojević dynasty lasted for less than a century , but during this period the foundations of a separate Montenegrin nation , with its own forms of government and its own culture , began to crystallise .
14 Hugh , who had worn the uniform of a verderer for less than a twelvemonth , was no use to them as a guide and as the day grew on it became evident that his arm was causing him a great deal of pain .
15 The gangs are killing hobos for less than a dollar and I get 19 on my first try .
16 Marion , a ripely handsome woman in her mid-thirties , who had played a season at Stratford-on-Avon and toured as Mrs Tanqueray , was extremely displeased at having to share Jessie , let alone a dressing-room , and particularly with a chit like Bunty ; but the Regent was small and naturally the two Star dressing-rooms , 1 and 2 , went to Salt and Pepper , that perennial and professionally married pair of comedy-thriller performers whose productions never ran for less than a year — a godsend in a profession where rehearse for three weeks , open and close in two was not unusual .
17 The European common shrew , found throughout Britain but not in Ireland , lives for less than a year .
18 Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer .
19 A third of Spain 's workers have contracts of employment valid for less than a year , living in permanent insecurity about being laid off .
20 But , as RICHARD BATH discovers , England 's appointment of coach DICK BEST for less than a year means that , instead of a bright new era , we can expect a diet of pragmatism and playing the percentages .
21 Never mind that numbers waiting for less than a year have risen , bringing the total number on waiting lists to almost a million — a new record high .
22 BARRY Fry left Barnet last night to become boss of First Division Southend after the sudden and mutual departure earlier yesterday of Colin Murphy , who had been in the job for less than a year .
23 Whereas Guy had only arrived in the Middle East in 1180 and at the time of his defeat had been King of Jerusalem for less than a year , Saladin had ruled Egypt since 1169 and Syria since 1176 .
24 To some extent he was lucky : at the beginning of his reign he encountered a pope , Gregory X , whom he had already met in England in the 1260s and on crusade in 1272–4 ; at the end of his reign Edward had to deal with a pope , Clement V , who had been his subject and his servant in Bordeaux ; in the interval between these two popes there were ten others , but nine of these together occupied the papal throne for barely fifteen years , five of them for less than a year each , two for four years apiece , one for nearly three , and one for two only .
25 There were not so many of them : five , to be precise , and one of those was Charles , and another her first husband Edgar Lintot , to whom she had remained married for less than a year .
26 ‘ Term of years absolute ’ means a term of years … either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; … and in this definition the expression ‘ term of years ’ includes a term for less than a year , or for a year or years and a fraction of a year or from year to year ; …
27 Such situations are notoriously unstable , as it was in this case , for the team remained together in that form for less than a year .
28 Although I have been a member of the board for less than a year , and chairman but a few weeks , I believe I have now been accepted into the bosom of the Athletico family .
29 It ran for less than a year .
30 It ran for less than a year .
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