Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for several " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 3 | A media education programme therefore presupposes that a group of people will continue to work together for several years . |
| 4 | " Now , I asked you to come over for several reasons . |
| 5 | It was then seen to pitch up for several seconds and then pitch down with increasing engine noise . |
| 6 | " I had to go away for several days and while I was gone your mother saw some papers in Devraux 's desk . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | But they appeared to vanish altogether for several years to return mysteriously to look , to whistle and back chat . |
| 9 | When he died in 1800 , Mrs. Smith took over her husband 's duties and continued to do so for several years , to the satisfaction of the directors . |
| 10 | He reached Britain this week , but then refused to turn up for several arranged interviews and acted aggressively enough to justify his old nickname , Killer . |
| 11 | After managing to hold out for several months against Paul 's pressurising , she had agreed to the engagement only a few days before this trip . |
| 12 | There are sites where it is not only possible to visit and see the reconstructions , but also to take part in activities simulating the way people lived on that site in the past , or even to live there for several days to get some sort of impression of the way of life . |
| 13 | The Queen was about to go abroad for several weeks . |
| 14 | BOTTLING The blender 's task completed , the whiskies he has chosen are blended , then returned to casks to marry together for several months and finally bottled . |
| 15 | Leave to dry out for several hours . |
| 16 | One of the Bosian evacuees who was treated at hospital in Oxford has been told he wont be able to return home for several months . |
| 17 | But Gwynedd 's chief executive , Huw Thomas , said it was already clear that some people would be unable to return home for several months . |