Example sentences of "run [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The championship is scheduled to start at the end of August and run for eight weeks .
2 They run for 10 weeks .
3 The British Triathlon Sprint Championship at Aylesbury was won by Steve Burton … his time to swim 750 metres … cycle 20 kilometres and then run for five kilometres was just 58 minutes and 26 seconds …
4 Because of the long-term nature of the business ( many funds run for five years or more ) , there are comparatively few firms that have been going long enough to supply relevant data .
5 TV ads break nationally in late June and run for five weeks .
6 Britain 's economy is fragile , run for short-term profits .
7 The first — which will start in April next year , and run for three years — is a new system of transitional protection for those households that stand to lose most from the abolition of domestic rates .
8 A spiritual director is not a problem-solver to whom we run for infallible answers .
9 Run for public office ; 3 .
10 And it 's gon na work along the lines of well , if we 're looking at a typical endowment mortgage , yeah , normally they run for twenty-five years , do n't they .
11 — Can you justify the time needed to view , say , the recordings of five groups , which may run for five minutes each — a total of twenty-five minutes ?
12 Cincinnati Bell Inc reports that the Federal arm of its Cincinnati Bell Information Systems won a systems management contract that could run for five years and be worth up to $41m to support the Federal Transportation Computer Center in Washington DC : the centre supports Federal Highway Administration , US Coast Guard , Federal Transit Administration , Research & Special Programs Administration , the Federal Aviation Administration , and the Federal Maritime Administration .
13 The contract , worth an estimated £150 million , will run for five years on the Magnus , Thistle and Miller platforms .
14 Intor is presently conceived as a 600 MW ( thermal ) reactor that would run for 10 years , researching and , we hope , demonstrating the practicability of repeated long pulses burning thermonuclear fuel in a tokamak .
15 Mr Mellor 's contract will run for six weeks , starting on January 9 .
16 This production would run for six months , if not a year .
17 As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations .
18 By this time the money involved would be £200,000 and the blackmail would run for two years .
19 The event begins tomorrow at the charity 's eight shops in the Province and will run for two weeks .
20 It 'll run for two weeks .
21 The course on theory and criticism will run for two terms and covers the major theories and methods of film practice from Eisenstein 's articles on montage to contemporary pronouncements on auteur cinema .
22 The course would run for seven years , at the end of which graduates would enter the second year of residency programmes .
23 CURRENT fashion in British gardening is illustrated among the gardens from 30 nations exhibited at the Floriade at The Hague , the dazzling horticulture show held in Holland only once every decade , which was opened by Queen Beatrix yesterday and will run for seven months .
24 The amount of work required to obtain this information may be inferred from knowing that this project will run for 9 years and cost 100 million US dollars .
25 The plan would protect whales south of latitude 40° South and would run for 50 years with a review after 10 years .
26 But then it does run for 20 nights .
27 The Blueprint project will run for 6 months and includes a national tour including performances in Oxford , Banbury and Swindon itself .
28 This argument will run for some years .
29 Warner Brothers immediately set in motion its own research programme to explore the feasibility of the idea ; it would run for some months before anyone realised it had been an April Fool and abandoned their research .
30 Each cassette for Europe will run for 60 minutes ; customers in the US and Japan will get 90 minutes ' playing time , However companies hope to extend this to four hours .
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