Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sightseers on the banks of the river , who , sensing something afoot , had been gathering for a few hours , dodged about , seeking a view between bushes . |
| 2 | Some of the young calves are fattened on the farms but many are reared for a few months and then sold for fattening in central or eastern Britain . |
| 3 | Suddenly he is more relaxed and confident and those horrible little worms of self-doubt which are perpetually burrowing away in a golfer 's head are banished for a few holes , anyway . |
| 4 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
| 5 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 6 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 7 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 8 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 9 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 10 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 11 | and if you 're coming for a few days you 've , you 've bag carrying and all this in the business |
| 12 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 13 | I am staying for a few days at the Dale End Hotel while I explore the district , and I 'd like to know about the Brownies ' Bridge , as I am to do with Brownies . ’ |
| 14 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 15 | The Hagen Biolife filter in our office tank has been running for a few weeks now , and one or two little problems have shown up . |
| 16 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 17 | They become quite unconscious of what they are doing for a few seconds , and yet insist that they want to carry on and learn to fly . |
| 18 | This increase in greenhouse gases is expected to eventually force global temperatures to rise by 2 to 5 °C , although the full amount of warming will be delayed for a few decades because of oceanic thermal inertia . |
| 19 | With great reluctance , Reagan bowed to pressure from his advisers and compromised the Kemp-Roth principle somewhat by agreeing that the first cut should be delayed for a few months and reduced to 5 per cent in the first year with 10 per cent cuts in years two and three . |
| 20 | Excuse me I 've got not exactly hay-fever but I think I 'm going to be sneezing for a few minutes . |
| 21 | A smuggling museum and exhibition ; video theatre and adventure walk — press the buttons and be prepared for a few surprises ! |
| 22 | I did n't want anyone to feel that this diet was a ‘ prison sentence ’ to be endured for a few weeks or months before old habits could be reintroduced . |
| 23 | Another method of birth control must be used for a few months until two consecutive tests show there are no sperm left . |
| 24 | A spokesman for the Assembly stated that it was hoped to hold elections by the end of 1992 , but that they might have to be postponed for a few months given the parlous state of the country . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've told her he 's travelling between America and Mexico and ca n't be reached for a few days . |
| 26 | The ground was cropped until it was exhausted and had to be left for a few years to recuperate . |
| 27 | If she needs nursing care , arrangements can sometimes be made for her to be admitted for a few weeks to the local hospital on medical recommendation . |
| 28 | It was felt that this type of exercise would probably not be repeated for a few years . |
| 29 | It is a distasteful subject but it must be faced for a few moments . |
| 30 | If he did n't become a telly millionaire turning out musical trash they could be flogged for a few pounds . |