Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] 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 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | " Now , I asked you to come over for several reasons . |
| 8 | It was then seen to pitch up for several seconds and then pitch down with increasing engine noise . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The controversy smouldered on for several years fuelled by the entrenched views of some of the judges . |
| 12 | It can also spread to the neck , arm or jaw and does n't usually ease off for several hours . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On the way up , look out for several wood ant nests . |
| 17 | No one knew how the Lāmri god acquired his reputation for treating mad dogs , but it dated back for several generations . |
| 18 | Tom Eisner and Stephen Nowicki , of Cornell University , noticed that the spiders that use stabilimenta build long-lived webs that can stay up for several days . |
| 19 | They walked on for several paces in silence . |
| 20 | Dexter watched the conversation between his boss and Russell rattle on for several minutes . |
| 21 | This type of question goes back for several generations , and small children are able to answer freely without any effort or strain on their part . |
| 22 | Thomas Hardy 's Ale , brewed by Eldridge Pope , has an OG of 1126 degrees and each small bottle has to be laid down for several years before it is ready to drink . |
| 23 | Thomas Hardy 's Ale , brewed by Eldridge Pope , has an OG of 1126° and each nip bottle has to be laid down for several years before it is ready to drink . |
| 24 | The centre of Milton Keynes was sealed off for several hours after a coded telephone message warned of a bomb in the town 's main shopping centre . |
| 25 | His Disco Roadshow business , called Darlington Number One , has been hired out for several parties and functions in the Darlington area . |
| 26 | Before their arrival at Heathrow , their passports and tickets were confiscated ; when the British Airways plane landed , they were separated from the other passengers , put into a van and driven around for several hours before being forced back on the plane and sent out of the UK . |
| 27 | This can go on for several hours on a number of occasions two hundred or more eggs have been counted . |
| 28 | He says time may be running out — it has run out for alot … this may go on for several more years — we have n't go several more years . |
| 29 | These went on for several hours , rattling doors and windows almost continuously . |
| 30 | Family Day at OBEX was the highlight of the year , and preparations went on for several weeks in advance . |