Example sentences of "for [art] good [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every Saturday night , for a good many years , he and George and George 's wife Annie laughed themselves to stitches and talked , glassy-eyed among friends , in the bar of the Cross Keys . |
| 2 | We 've created in Ulster and Ireland a monster that will terrify the island for a good many years to come . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course he was away in England for a good many years , ’ Bull O'Malley offered by way of explanation . |
| 4 | Having craned my neck in likely locations for a good many years , I finally discovered it displaying its gorgeous wings over an oil-stain beside my car . |
| 5 | They would n't join the grown-ups for a good many years , though the Sheikha 's daughter had been my meal companion before I myself had been accepted by the ‘ grown-ups , . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , the absence of labourers is more apparent than real : the local practice of not assessing goods of less value than £2 did not mean that any personal property owned by people of the labouring sort was generally ignored , for a good many men later taxed on wages owned goods worth anything up to £10 in 1522 , which ( unless perhaps having disposed of , say , a beast or two ) they managed to conceal from the taxman and convince him that they had nothing but the minimum in wages . |
| 7 | In certain areas no figures were given for a good many parishes , even the values of some livings being omitted . |
| 8 | For a good many long years . ’ |
| 9 | The intrusion of these emotions into a relationship , whether or not related to sexual issues , is responsible for a good many sexual problems which are based on them , not directly but through decline in the quality of the relationship itself . |
| 10 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 11 | AIDA ruled the advertising world for a good many years , in the absence of anything better . |
| 12 | Not only was it a loss to the series of Malcolm Hulke for a good many years , it was also a nail in the coffin of the show 's bid to be genuinely educative . |
| 13 | Do n't because there is at present , and has been for a good many years past , almost nowhere to publish the stories you may write . |
| 14 | Authors in both traditions happily wrote away in the footsteps of the great Sherlock for a good many years after his second , slightly less flamboyant departure from the scene . |
| 15 | From then onwards , indeed for a good many years , nothing more appears to have been done on the Coniston Manor . |
| 16 | Mrs. Davey , whose husband had been an agent for a good many years on £16:0s.:0d. per month was granted £16 : 12s. : 8d. upon his death in 1847 . |
| 17 | Topstock paused for a moment and then said , ‘ I think he was responsible for a good many of the Society 's priests . |
| 18 | But in South Africa today , and surely for a good many years to come , there are also additional considerations that demand from a large company actions and policies that go beyond its immediate business interests and seek to ameliorate the excessive social and economic imbalances that have developed in our society . |
| 19 | But unlike a lot of us who think it will be severely abused for a good many years to come , new agers are optimistic . |
| 20 | And the other reason they do n't want to turn up is primarily because they do know that we have compulsory purchase powers and the planning — the paper put forward by the Chief Planning Officer today was a vindication of wage for a good many years , a good many months rather , that we do have compulsory purchase powers and we are able to use them and it was specifically asked at the Panel today , by both Monty Finnist and Sir Monty Finnist and Tony Christopher , why does n't the City Council market this site and use its compulsory purchase powers and that 's one question to address tomorrow as a politician who could make that decision . |
| 21 | Both are gigantic construction projects , needing a large number of people to pass through them to be profitable , and with neither of them is the full return projected for a good few years hence . |
| 22 | Other parents long for grandchildren but find that their children delay marriage , or else their career-minded daughters or daughters-in-law have no intention of starting a family for a good few years . |
| 23 | There 's no hurry for that now that the money 's been cut back , Mr Silver can go on economising on space and heat and lighting for his twelve women workers for a good few years yet , and in any case , no-one 's been round to check up on him for a long time now . |
| 24 | But it is quite right that Wales have decided you should have to live and play in the country for a good few years ’ . |
| 25 | The biggest developments in men 's fashion in the past few years — the explosion of sportswear in everyday clothes , the return of knitwear and the gradual softening of the suit 's construction — are more than likely to stay with us for a good few seasons yet . |
| 26 | ‘ Thanks to Mrs Ashley we employed more people , the weavers were paid overtime and we enjoyed an Indian summer for a good few years . |
| 27 | Foley said nothing for a good few seconds . |
| 28 | There ya go Mark , that should give you enough ammo for a good few months yet : - ) ) |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't think of anything for a good few hours , ’ he admitted throatily . |
| 30 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |