Example sentences of "be [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 2 | Two to three tablespoons of tinned tomatoes are enough for a sauce made from 2 lb. of the fresh fruit or for 3 pints of stock . |
| 3 | Earlier marriages with fewer children means that couples are together for a long time after their children have left home . |
| 4 | If they have been together for a whole day or days in conference or retreat then there is a dynamic already present . |
| 5 | er just one after thought , Dennis mentioned teamwork , now we we 've been together for a few years basically , but you might say , we work as a team , everyone gets on , everyone helps each other out . |
| 6 | Operating as Shadowfax Restaurants , the partnership has been together for a number of years , and currently has two Pizza Express outlets in Barnet and Finchley , and part ownership of a pizza restaurant in the West End of London . |
| 7 | After all , they had been together for a couple of years and she did idolise him . |
| 8 | And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments |
| 9 | She had been inside for a day . |
| 10 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 11 | What is the best way to protect my plumbing system while I am away for a few days in cold weather ? |
| 12 | If anything , it has even more justified my decision to leave Coventry where I was manager and join Chelsea — I certainly could not have been away for a month if I 'd stayed at Highfield Road . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 14 | And er if it 's more convenient , if you 've got er a lengthy inquiry , call into any tax office , the nearest one , I 've even called into tax offices when we 've been away for a weekend , just to pick up brochures and things like that . |
| 15 | We 've been away for a long time . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , my husband 's been away for a while . |
| 17 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 19 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 20 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 21 | The city has changed so much that anyone who has been away for a couple of years could be forgiven for thinking that he arrived in a time machine , not an airliner . |
| 22 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 23 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 24 | ‘ If you 're away for a night … |
| 25 | ‘ We 're here for a straight account of Princess 's voyage — all three sides of it ; Bristol to Africa to Jamaica and back — not a social gathering , though I 'm the last to turn up me nose at a good meal . ’ |
| 26 | And so to Nepal … we 're in the walled city of Bhaktapur … this is the place where many adaventures start from … the great climbing expeditions pass through here on the way to everest … we 're here for a sporting first … the first ever Kathmandu marathon |
| 27 | So we 're , we 're particularly pleased that you 're here for a slightly mercenary reason actually , because with a thousand delegates coming into the city , it really does boost , even for a week , boosts the local economy and that 's very pleasing . |
| 28 | If you 're there for a week , you could comfortably play the two groups we recommend for their value , hospitality and enjoy some agreeable accommodation . |
| 29 | Erm they 're the they 're there for a purpose and their size is there for a purpose in terms of er of the constrictions of the other road er sizing or whatever , and obviously huge vehicles who just ca n't possibly manoeuvre without going over . |
| 30 | ‘ I know speed limits can be boring and frustrating but they 're there for a reason , ’ added Ch Insp Williams . |