Example sentences of "only [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public-sector contracts anyway only account for a small proportion of Olivetti 's sales , says Mr De Benedetti . |
| 2 | Although there are over 20 million individual shareholders in Japan they only account for a quarter of the total shares held . |
| 3 | Such bids are regularly submitted but only account for a very small amount of stock allotted . |
| 4 | According to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle this ‘ virtual ’ photon can only exist for a time . |
| 5 | Grants of any kind are usually only given for a proportion of the cost of the work to be done , but when necessary , local authorities can make loans for the balance , on which interest has to be paid . |
| 6 | In addition , the copyright monopoly is only given for a certain period of time ( eg in the UK , 50 years from the end of the year in which the author dies ) , but databases are usually continuously updated with new information , therefore does the protection period keep changing ? |
| 7 | It usually starts shortly after the animals have been weaned and in most instances it only persists for a few months . |
| 8 | We had only to go for a walk through the empty streets and someone would appear in a doorway to invite us for dinner . |
| 9 | He had only to go for a spin with Freddie Reynalde or spend half an hour too long in the pub for her shoulders to slump and her eyes to fill . |
| 10 | Breathless , she straightened up and said fiercely , ‘ You can only stay for a minute and then you must promise to go . ’ |
| 11 | However campers should only stay for a night or two , be unobtrusive and sensitive to wildlife , and leave no litter . |
| 12 | Those moths that settle there will probably only stay for a day and then continue higher still . |
| 13 | Warned that she could only stay for a few moments , Laura had sat down quietly in a chair beside the bed , taking her cousin 's inert , pale hand and praying , as she had never prayed before , that Liz would be able to survive her ordeal . |
| 14 | China could only wait for a more favourable opportunity to recover her rights . |
| 15 | it only needs for a little bit of attention on a wire or something |
| 16 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 17 | Yet rehabilitation was only expected for a minority about 25 per cent — of all the children in the study . |
| 18 | It only allows for a diet less generous as regards variety than that supplied to able-bodied paupers in workhouses . |
| 19 | Each driving the other towards the kind of frustration which you can only feel for a family member . |
| 20 | ‘ I only came for a glass of water . |
| 21 | Yeah , oh cos that 's when she said Frank , Frank only came for a short while or something ? |
| 22 | What else is his Eucharist but , at a higher level , an endless act of fruitful out-pouring of his whole flesh , such as a man can only achieve for a moment with a limited organ of his body ? |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm only looking for a taxi . ’ |
| 24 | And you only have to see a police uniform through the door to feel racked with guilt , even though you 've done nothing wrong and he 's only looking for a lost cat . |
| 25 | I do find that most people who come out here on short contracts are only looking for a paid holiday . |
| 26 | In order not to dull your pleasure I intend to only speak for a few minutes in case we all get snowed in/melt away in the heat ! |
| 27 | Youngsters love it but the 220-year-old automaton is only operated for a minute , once or twice a day . |
| 28 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 29 | The smoke is probably unburnt fuel If the carb is a little bit worn it will do this The Solex carb is more prone to this than the later Zenith It may also be slight oil burning which is also very common as the engine starts and only happens for a few seconds This is a ‘ feature ’ of Land Rovers and is not really cause for concern |
| 30 | Cos you ca n't go and say well I 'm only going for a couple of weeks ! |