Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] long [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of British garages refused to quote for the job directly , giving only-their hourly-rates and an estimate of how long it would take . |
| 2 | The engine driver also gave control some idea of how long it would take to clean the fire and raise sufficient steam for him to take his train forward . |
| 3 | Don and Steven made the most accurate estimates of how long it would take Courtaulds InterSpray , the Group 's entry in the race , to reach Rio de Janeiro from Southampton on the first leg . |
| 4 | Thinking about the bars and wire mesh of her cage , and of how long she would have to be there , he nearly gave up the job there and then . |
| 5 | Their initial interest was in how long it would take before they were caught out , or discharged as cured . |
| 6 | Already he was beginning to steal glances at the clock , comparing it needlessly with his own watch , missing bits of the film while he made rapid calculations as to whether he might conceivably be able to see Bridget home , and , when this had become out of the question , as to how long they would have to say good night at the hated corner . |
| 7 | Now , when there was a strict limit to how long he would have to talk to her , it was convenient — perhaps even imperative — to do so unimpeded by a third party . |
| 8 | When the inquiry first opened , there were varying predictions about how long it would last . |
| 9 | Normally a knight expected to serve for about forty days a year at his own expense ; the terms of his service might also be restricted — when and where he served , and for how long he would stay after the forty days if the king paid him . |
| 10 | Andrew Houston marshalled them unto one group in a roadway well away from where the inrush of peat had occurred ; it was a place still free from sludge but they wondered for how long it would be so . |
| 11 | He gave no indication of when the parliament would be formed or for how long it would sit before elections were held . |