Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for several " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 In the Sokol valley I was lucky enough to watch a stock circling above for several minutes .
3 Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row .
4 He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay .
5 I 've been going downhill for several days now .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 On the contrary , they feed when food is available , frequently going without for several days , and then gorging .
9 One afternoon , after they had been travelling together for several days , Cleo ordered Dauntless to pull Contralto to a halt .
10 We had been hillwalking together for several years , and by this time were well aware of the strengths and weaknesses of each other 's paces .
11 Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips .
12 Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better .
13 And yes , he 'd been working there for several days .
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