Example sentences of "for [num] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing that every day for fifty one years he actually wore a trench in the solid concrete floor . |
| 2 | The upshot of the matter was that although the Butcher had an account for 30 odd years they did not think him worthy of an invite . |
| 3 | For forty three years it has been the jewel in the crown of the Labour Party legislation and for forty three years the Labour Party has defended the National Health Service against all comers . |
| 4 | Built in the year nine O nine , for six hundred years it was the largest enclosed building in the world . |
| 5 | family and they put me onto valium , but having worked in psychiatric I knew the results of valium , so I I gradually broke them down and got off them but for six full months I could n't sleep |
| 6 | We never did persuade them , but for six valuable hours we managed to hold them on that course far out into the Flores Sea , until finally they came to their senses , noticed the distant and almost invisible shore , and hurriedly tacked towards it again . |
| 7 | For three separate periods I have taken up quarters , each time for several weeks , where I was not known , and as a lodger have shared the lives of people … |
| 8 | For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame . |
| 9 | PEOPLE WHO WISHED THAT FOR TEN PRECIOUS SECONDS THEY COULD HAVE THE LEGS OF VALERY BORZOV . |
| 10 | For five whole minutes he held her in his arms and kissed her again and again . |
| 11 | For five more minutes they ploughed the sky . |
| 12 | For twenty five years he has been a member of Equity and has played a different number of roles . |
| 13 | I felt after working hard for twenty seven years I felt it was a shame . |
| 14 | For twenty three years I lived in England , and with the exception of the Falklands Conflict , I have never felt an emotion for my country like the Americans experience for theirs . |
| 15 | Twenty pounds for it at twenty pounds at twenty pounds thank you , twenty is offered and selling for twenty pounds only , twenty five for you sir , thank you , twenty five , thirty thirty five thirty five to my left and selling for thirty five pounds yours sir , thank you , thirty five pounds for number eight four five , thank you very much . |
| 16 | For four hundred years it was owned by a succession of wealthy aristocrats … the valley , woodland and lakes seen as private possessions for their eyes only . |
| 17 | For two blissful weeks we explored the islands : fishing , swimming , wandering over moorlands to distant trout lochs and seaweed-fringed pools , alive with silver sea-trout . |
| 18 | For two perfect Sundays they scrambled side-by-side over the lichen-dappled rocks of the valley wall , the aquamarine sky above reflected in the ribbon of sea below them . |
| 19 | For two hundred quids we are talking Les Miserables , |
| 20 | For two thousand years we lived in darkness . |
| 21 | And for two thousand years we have had a government not our own . |
| 22 | For two thousand years we have done that . |
| 23 | Included in the recommendations is for a two day training course , costing fifty thousand for two thousand places it 's excellent except we 're told in the report that we ca n't get people on courses however good they is es especially among , er , small companies . |
| 24 | For two long years I lived the life of a slave . |
| 25 | He continued his studies at Leiden , where he learned of the death of his father in 1644 , and for two more years he travelled further in France and the Netherlands . |
| 26 | They begged him to desist , in order to give them some words of edification , and for two consecutive hours he proceeded to give them excellent exhortations , while at the same time never ceasing his writing — and all the while what he was writing was not the same as what he was speaking . |