Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for several " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 2 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 3 | Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months . |
| 4 | Happily they lived together for several weeks , until Killigrew told his young bride that duty called him to town . |
| 5 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 6 | The generation of power from nuclear fission , generating intense radioactivity , has been developed and used commercially for several decades to meet part of the world demand for electrical energy . |
| 7 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 8 | A media education programme therefore presupposes that a group of people will continue to work together for several years . |
| 9 | TELL your friends that you are going to the Cape Verde Islands and , in all probability , their eyes will glaze over for several seconds while they frantically try to recall their long-forgotten school geography . |
| 10 | " Now , I asked you to come over for several reasons . |
| 11 | It was then seen to pitch up for several seconds and then pitch down with increasing engine noise . |
| 12 | ‘ We talked of the extraordinary fact of Lady Grange 's being sent to St Kilda , and confined there for several years , without any means of relief . ’ |
| 13 | In the Sokol valley I was lucky enough to watch a stock circling above for several minutes . |
| 14 | " I had to go away for several days and while I was gone your mother saw some papers in Devraux 's desk . |
| 15 | Dry off gladioli corms in trays , then remove very small cormlets that have developed around the base — these will eventually flower , but only when grown on for several years . |
| 16 | Such hopes as there may have been — American , French , even Vietminh — of a cease-fire or negotiated settlement lingered on for several months but once the French had begun fighting they presented their case , modestly , that military operations were designed with no thought of reconquest but simply to persuade the Vietminh that they had no hope of victory . |
| 17 | The controversy smouldered on for several years fuelled by the entrenched views of some of the judges . |
| 18 | In fact , it seemed so for several months . |
| 19 | It can also spread to the neck , arm or jaw and does n't usually ease off for several hours . |
| 20 | to collect the card but did Ms Sutton gracefully rise from her seat to hand it to her , no , she tossed it over the rim of the platform onto the floor below leaving the poor woman to scrabble around for several minutes looking for it and the , and the punch line is a little later an embarrassed Ms Sutton is contesting Cambridgeshire South West for the Lib Dems at the general election , apologised for her cavalier behaviour , let us hope she learnt from the experience yeah |
| 21 | Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row . |
| 22 | He started the car by letting it run downhill — Maxim had insisted they park so that there would be no give-away noise of the starter- and drove steadily for several miles . |
| 23 | He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay . |
| 24 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 25 | But they appeared to vanish altogether for several years to return mysteriously to look , to whistle and back chat . |
| 26 | His tenure of the post was short : his health had been declining progressively for several months as a result of overwork , and he died 5 February 1882 at his home at 7 Cornwall Street , Edinburgh . |
| 27 | Concerned about the increasing number of complaints from neighbours of alarms sounding off for several hours the council has pledged to help end the menace . |
| 28 | Similar schemes have been drawn up for several mammalian groups , certain butterfly genera , various reptiles and amphibians while a good deal of work has been carried out on the distributions of the avifauna . |
| 29 | Modern cook-chill processes , using liquid nitrogen , chill partly cooked food very rapidly to just above freezing point at which temperature it will keep perfectly for several days . |
| 30 | On the way up , look out for several wood ant nests . |