run for

VERB
  1. extend or continue for a certain period of time
    The film runs 5 hours
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How To Use run for In A Sentence

  • Here, officials of the government-run Forest Department reportedly did not allow them to forage for food in the forests.
  • Opened in 2007, the family-run Forte S ā o Jo ā o da Barra is part of a small but growing band of hotels running countercurrent to the wave of mass tourism that has swept over much of the Algarve region during the past 40 years. Portugal's Alluring Hideaways
  • Rather Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, both discernably more open to Russian influence than Yushchenko (who was poisoned by unidentified assailants on the occasion of his last run for President), will face each other in the runoff. Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka: Foreign Affairs Roundup
  • The England captain is scheduled to run for the first time next week since a keyhole operation in December. Times, Sunday Times
  • A huge campaign will attempt to sweep away litter and graffiti in a fresh war on crime which is expected to run for a year.
  • A political activist for 25 years who has twice run for a seat in the U.S.
  • But he's pushing ahead: On Wednesday, Mr. Anwar vowed to run for parliament "imminently" in a by-election, with the aim of toppling the government by September. It's Déjà Vu for Malaysia's Opposition Leader
  • Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it. Rodney Dangerfield 
  • Suddenly, he darts off on a detour and we had to run for another 20 minutes. Times, Sunday Times
  • This year is something of a trial run for the new service.
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