Example sentences of "[adv] for a full [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When we landed at Owi he had seventy gallons left — enough for a full hour 's flight throttled down .
2 Quail Eggs Arnold Bennett — perhaps the name should put one off , and what arrived was enough for a full meal , with much haddock , but the sauce was rather thick , reminding one of our party of a school-sanatorium dinner .
3 So for a full week he had sat in the outer office , and waited .
4 However , the emphasis in LMS training has been on a whole-school approach , with governors , teachers , office staff , cleaners , caretakers , technicians , ancillary staff and LEA representatives working together for a full day in a particular school .
5 In succeeding years of wartime the annual conference continued to take place , though not at the seaside and not usually for a full week .
6 You swapped your provisional licence automatically for a full licence .
7 Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview .
8 Call our hotline NOW for a full information pack which explains how to obtain this AMAZING UNREPEATABLE OFFER !
9 He sat down heavily and while holding on firmly to the still struggling fish , put his head between his knees , panting loudly for a full minute .
10 There is no space here for a full account of her system , but its key characteristics are phases of ( a ) free associations with the topic , ( b ) reflections on each other 's associations , ( c ) collaborative reformulation of prior knowledge .
11 Then we bury the toad in an ant-hill ; and it 's there for a full month , till the moon is at the full .
12 She presented three rows of two letters in either the left or right field and asked subjects either for a full report of all six letters or simply to recall a particular pair of letters ( partial report condition ) corresponding to a single column of the display .
13 Unlike the previous passage , this one has several vocabulary items specific to ( originally ) black youth culture , for example bredder ( brother — in the community rather than biological sense ) , sound ( a large mobile disco — but see Gilroy 1987 : 164ff for a fuller description ) , spar ( friend ) , skirt and daughter ( both words for women ) , while other words like trod and check are not used in a Standard English way .
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