Example sentences of "while [noun pl] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd have to wait two or three hours while Customs ran it across the road to me so I could make a quick video dub for Hurley or his spook friends before they returned the original and let the guy on through to Nicosia . |
| 2 | Thus the time spent on the settling-down and clearing-up stages varied from 7 to 45 per cent of the total session , and the introductory stage varied similarly , largely because some teachers treated it as a purely administrative matter to be dealt with as succinctly as possible , while others incorporated it into the session as the whole-class teaching in an arrangement otherwise dominated by group work . |
| 3 | At the 10th plenum a new draft political platform was released , which some commentators saw as marking a return to central planning , while others saw it as an essentially reformist tract . |
| 4 | Some regard it purely as a means of conveying information , while others regard it as a means of building and maintaining relationships . |
| 5 | It is considered a separate family of the Cercopithecoidea by some on the basis of its teeth , while others attribute it to a separate family of the Hominoidea on the basis of its postcrania . |