Example sentences of "had [verb] for several " in BNC.

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1 Further , his duties were substantially a continuation of those which he had undertaken for several years in connection with Tutorial Classes and the annual summer school arrangements .
2 In earlier work , he and others had established that the cortical-evoked potential , and also direct cortical stimulation , had to persist for several hundred milliseconds before subjects reported feeling anything .
3 So although the ERP had to persist for several hundred milliseconds before the subject felt anything , they nevertheless reported that the sensation had occurred at the moment when the ERP was beginning .
4 ( a ) How could you test if the factor which causes SAD was lack of light or the cold weather ? ( b ) Would you get more information by considering patients who had suffered for several years rather than only once ? ( 2 ) Bright light is often found to bring relief .
5 Undeniably , they offered possibilities for assured if modest financial support for the WEA , a position which it had sought for several years .
6 He lived there , had done for several weeks .
7 Whatever inhibitory material was present appeared only after the mould had grown for several days , so there was an obvious advantage in having a stock of the active principle ready for bacteriological experiments .
8 In October 1922 , employees ' wages were reduced by three shillings a week ! conditions at that time were severe ; men had to serve for several years on the seasonal staff before being taken on as a regular .
9 A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years .
10 She was a woman he had known for several years now ; one with whom he had never slept ; one who half repelled , and ever half attracted him .
11 The latter was one of Captain Buck 's SIG men , a Palestinian Jew who had served for several years in the German army .
12 His explanation that he had worked for several years for one master , until his employer had died , mollified Jonadab a little .
13 Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting .
14 Miss Grimes , with whom she had worked for several years , was hardly the most congenial of companions but at least she was familiar .
15 Earthtrust discovered that many other locals were opposed to the capture and slaughter of dolphins , and had tried for several years to halt the practice .
16 He had to think for several seconds before he came out with , " Moi , je suis Italien . "
17 ’ And he had stood for several minutes in the passage , paralysed with embarrassment , and shame and chagrin .
18 The journey was the longest he had ridden for several years and he was feeling his age .
19 The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land .
20 Picture the poor miner cursing the mis-fired hole upon which he had laboured for several hours .
21 Rumours about them had circulated for several years but this was the first time they had been linked by a named source — former US ambassador Lewis Fields .
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