Example sentences of "for [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They really should have outpointed the New Zealand XV in the first match at Hamilton for they outplayed the New Zealanders for rather more than half the game . |
| 2 | Each partnership authority has a different spending pattern , but overall expenditure on social projects such as recreation and personal social services accounts for rather more than two-fifths of the total ; that on economic projects , such as site works , accounts for about a third ; and that on environmental projects , such as restoration of derelict land and housing , for a quarter . |
| 3 | David Mercer joined the editorial board ; so did Mo Teitlebaum , involved in TV , the poet Adrian Mitchell , looking for rather more than It could offer , and Robin Fior , a designer . |
| 4 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
| 5 | These two broad industrial groups account for rather less than half the total labour force but nearly two-thirds of the temporary labour force [ see Table 2.1 ] . |
| 6 | We look in vain for strikingly deviant or schematic uses of language in James . |
| 7 | However , it is now widely ( and wisely ) accepted that screen-based communication is a weak platform for predominantly textual and numeric information and is more naturally the platform for sound and images . |
| 8 | The ladies , sisters , were English and looking for somewhere cheap but clean while they stayed on in Florence to attend art classes . |
| 9 | Now she 's gone , and I do n't have to pay out , I 'm not badly off ; I 've saved a bit , and I 'd thought there would be no need to let the room , but if you and Mr Paul was looking for somewhere clean and comfortable , with good food , and reasonable as it 's yourselves , perhaps you 'd think it over . ’ |
| 10 | The devaluation of 1967 ( which reduced the dollar rate of the £ from $2.80 to $2.40 ) did something to redress the balance for perhaps two or three years but , for the reasons discussed earlier , its impact was limited [ Artus , 1975 ] . |
| 11 | Therefore I think it would be a better idea if units could be set up and the children could be taken out of an ordinary school for perhaps one or two or three years , according to how much time is required , where they could give the individual attention and the specialist teaching to help them to overcome this particular problem . |
| 12 | People argue and give evidence to the Committee , for perhaps 10 or 12 weeks or longer . |
| 13 | The simpler forms are designed for less prestigious or valuable property . |
| 14 | There are proposals for less contentious but equally important Bills . |
| 15 | Their path into fundamental opposition was , partly for this reason , a hesitant one , and their objections to the regime for long less than fundamental . |
| 16 | Based on this blot , roughly 106 BALB/c nuclei , 0.5 10 6 nuclei for Long 12 and 2 10 6 nuclei were loaded onto the gel . |
| 17 | The young will not be pampered so for much longer but meanwhile , for the bird watcher , it is an entertaining time . |
| 18 | Not for much longer but he 's with me now . |
| 19 | I ca n't sit for much longer than an hour . |
| 20 | His attention had been drawn away for only five or six seconds and there were surely only half a dozen shops that she could have entered . |
| 21 | The letters arrive all year round though Praise Be is shown for only five or six weeks a year . |
| 22 | ( That 's why it gets used for only small and specialized purposes , not for things like spaceships hulls ) . |
| 23 | Baskets for carrying your tackle box , reels , bait , flasks , sandwiches , etc. , and for sitting on , are , I suppose , fine if you fish for only two or three hours at a stretch . |
| 24 | Articles in industry are not the best preparation for private practice , and unless you have a fairly fixed intention to make your career in industry or commerce you may find it difficult to settle down even for only two or three years in the atmosphere of a company 's legal department . |
| 25 | Rawsthorne points out that Lawrence is more about sexuality than specific acts of sex which account for only two or three sections of the 600-page novel . |
| 26 | Mr. Taylor : As many of the laws that used to be made in the House of Commons are now made by the Council of Ministers , and as we can discuss its decisions for only one and a half hours after 10 o'clock at night , does the Lord President agree that this makes nonsense of democracy and deprives the public of the knowledge of what is going on ? |
| 27 | Mr for the defendant effectively accepts that , but says that having regard to Mr er undoubted success in regard to provision of one to one assistance in relation to other children , some of whom are less disabled than Paul , that I should try and look to local authority will provide thirty hours assistance or thereabouts after say eighteen months and that therefore in this regard the defendant should pay for only one and a half years of er enabler 's time . |
| 28 | ‘ I could n't sit there all day holding the rod and feeling for only one or two bites , which is all you get on the water I fish , ’ and , ‘ I 'd like to see anyone catch fish from my local cut when touch legering . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ If Pears was going to be out for only one or two games I would send for Ironside . |
| 30 | In the 1960s , the under-twenties accounted for only 5 or 6 per cent of total unemployment : in April 1985 , the figure was 15.6 per cent and this was not untypical of the early 1980s . |