Example sentences of "for [adv] [subord] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | As most interbank deposits are for less than one year , few banks will grant such a loan with a term of more than one year . |
| 2 | Michael Holly had been a prisoner of the camp for less than one month , and already he believed that he could walk this path with his eyes closed . |
| 3 | Those currently in receipt of Unemployment Benefit , in other words those who have been unemployed for less than one year , can reopen rights to a further year of unemployment benefit if they work in insured employment for at least eight weeks . |
| 4 | The principal debate about mode of origin initially centred upon the subaerial or marine hypothesis but it was later deduced , in the light of studies of contemporary shore processes , that marine planation could only be effective for less than one kilometre unless sea level was rising ( Bradley , 1956 ; King , 1963 ) . |
| 5 | If I 'd been buying my fist laser today , the poor benighted soul would be less likely to endure a coronary , since , for less than one thousand pounds I could nip out and buy a very nicely specified machine . |
| 6 | According to Martin Newland 's article in The Daily Telegraph today , Mr. Brown turned his back on his car for less than one minute . |
| 7 | Moreover , if the answer is knowledge of the patient over time , what of the 2.3% of general practitioners and 31.3% of specialists who carried out LAWER on patients whom they knew for less than one month ? |
| 8 | Two of the several names owned by another recipient had strayed into someone 's word-processor to create a further deserving don , the knowing reference to whom must have ruined the new year for more than one senior scholar . |
| 9 | Several will remain in bloom for more than one month . |
| 10 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 11 | The latter was defined by Soviet terminology in the 1920s as all establishments producing goods for more than one household but employing thirty wage-earners or less ; or if motive power was used , fifteen wage-earners or less . |
| 12 | There is also opposition to the principle that companies can bid for more than one commercial television licence : the IBA has warned the government this will make management of the network between now and 1993 very difficult . |
| 13 | There was n't room for more than one such space hogger at Barnsdale ; after much agonised indecision I finally could n't resist the bronze-leaved Rodgersia pinnata . |
| 14 | However , the use of a tranquilliser is a last resort , and is most unlikely to be necessary for more than one in a hundred horses . |
| 15 | All gilts are capital gains tax exempt if held for more than one year , while gilts on the Register pay interest gross of income tax . |
| 16 | The total task needs to be broken down into small easily achieved wins , eg every teacher will be in the playground five minutes before the bell goes to greet children and parents , four children from each class will have their names entered in the ‘ Gold book ’ for good work or praiseworthy actions , any child in hospital for more than one night will receive ‘ get well cards ’ from the class and a visit by a member of staff , the entrance hall is cleared of clutter and made more welcoming for visitors . |
| 17 | In fact , I often look back to that conference and , for more than one reason , regard it as a turning point in my life . |
| 18 | As in the case of true ESSs , it is possible for more than one strategy to be collectively stable at the same time . |
| 19 | The only time you will find bream layers in stillwaters is in small or narrow lakes and canals where there is too little room for more than one beat , and small waters are not suitable for growing big bream anyway . |
| 20 | Many interviewers , however , work for more than one company , which makes it hard for any individual company to implement standards different from the rest . |
| 21 | Further afield , we need to recognize that some disasters ( most obviously Chernobyl ) will have implications for more than one country so that environmental monitoring should take place with some kind of international co-ordination . |
| 22 | But where results can be presented in tabular form it does seem reasonable to expect that there is sufficient uniformity of approach to have allowed for more than one interviewer , and , of course , for subsequent repetition of the interviews , so as to replicate the enquiry . |
| 23 | As a means of assessing quality it is poles apart from crude paper tallies , which simply indicate quantity , persistence , and sometimes misguided ingenuity in rehashing work for more than one organ . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've done some sums and we reckon that if you use the phone for more than one and half minutes per day it will be more expensive , ’ says a west London cellphone dealer . |
| 25 | But with either system , the same crops are not allowed to be sowed for more than one year in four so that any soil disease is not perpetuated . |
| 26 | If you can possibly afford it , opt for more than one bedroom . |
| 27 | In 1979 , a survey carried out by the Manpower Services Commission showed that 65 per cent of those people unemployed for more than one year were over thirty-five years of age . |
| 28 | In one case the European Court considered Irish legislation which exempted rural land owned by corporate bodies from compulsory acquisition if all the shareholders had resided for more than one year within three miles of the land . |
| 29 | He is entitled to reject a nomination only if the nomination paper does not conform to requirements ( 1983 Act , sch.1 , paras.12,15 ) or if a candidate is disqualified by reason of having been ordered to be detained or imprisoned for more than one year in the British Islands or the Republic of Ireland in respect of an offence or offences of which he has been found guilty ( Representation of the People Act 1981 , s.1 ) . |
| 30 | A well-planned garden has a variety of dramatic effects which can last for more than one season . |