Example sentences of "for [adj] [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | As my vouchers are used up in about four months each year this means that for eight months I 'm out of pocket using our stores for the weekly shop . |
| 2 | For eight years I had revelled in the dual careers of journalism and broadcasting , between 1929 and 1937 , and these years coincided with the ‘ boom to bust ’ period , winding up with the deepest depression of the century . |
| 3 | For eight years I was a county councillor having won a seat from the Conservative Party . |
| 4 | ‘ For 30 years I always painted on the spot , even in deep snow . |
| 5 | And when the flat 's not in use for entertaining clients I like to make it available to all my employees . ’ |
| 6 | For forty-five years I was something I was n't . |
| 7 | And I said the thing is , she 'll pick him up off the floor or she 'll pick him up out the basket and say if you do n't give me some money for some drugs I 'll chuck him on the floor ! |
| 8 | After that for some months I was unemployed . |
| 9 | For some months I worked in the Information Department of the British Embassy , where I was engaged in propaganda , which included writing leaders for the Iraq Times . |
| 10 | For some years I had had a similar experience in the teaching of literature , amazed to see colleagues attempting to hound students , in the context of a two- or three-year course , through complex texts in a single session : today we read King Lear , tomorrow we discuss it , and next day you write your essays on it . |
| 11 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 12 | Having admired his free verse for some years I had recently ploughed through his somewhat monumental work , the first two volumes of ‘ Abraham Lincoln — The Prairie Years ’ and enjoyed it . |
| 13 | I did not aim at making my style ‘ Italian Gothic ’ my ideas ran much more upon the French to which for some years I had devoted my chief study . |
| 14 | In fact , for some years I had my own dog , first Bess and then Judith , and she was my responsibility to feed , groom and exercise . |
| 15 | For some years I tended to assume that the computers would merely give us a better documented description of the language , but I do not think that that position remains tenable . |
| 16 | For some years I have been running what is the largest programme in the world for the direct teaching of thinking as a curriculum subject in schools . |
| 17 | For some years I have been campaigning to open up the unofficial footpath along the north edge of the field bordering Baberton golf course , which links Muirwood Road to Bloomiehall Park . |
| 18 | Each level in the grouping hierarchy is numbered but " For some levels I will replace these numbers with names that are mnemonic of the correspondence of groups at this level with the rhythmic medium ( e.g. " 'syllables " " or " " tone units " " ) " ( pp. 137 – 8 ) . |
| 19 | Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said . |
| 20 | But for six years I carried his image in my mind , determined that he should somehow be made to pay . |
| 21 | For six months I looked after a valiant clerical worker with cancer of the colon , which had spread to her liver before her condition was diagnosed . |
| 22 | For six months I lived in the homes of working-class women , men and children . |
| 23 | For six months I was the best customer the Porteneil Pet Shop had , going in every Saturday to get a couple of beasts , and about every month buying a tube of badminton shuttlecocks from the toyshop as well . |
| 24 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |
| 25 | ‘ For personal reasons I prefer not to spend another night here in Denmark . |
| 26 | For obvious reasons I 'm not telling exactly where , but anyone seeing this can award themselves ten Brownie points ! |
| 27 | I would consider using it only in particular circumstances ; for obvious reasons I will not predict what they might be . |
| 28 | Well it 's for younger children I suppose , like Kirsty , to learn , to show them how to hold a pencil tidy . |
| 29 | This is one that 's been , I 've had appointment and for three times I 'd had to cancel it . |
| 30 | For three hours I was sitting in a dressing gown . |