Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [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 Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row .
3 He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay .
4 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 .
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 One afternoon , after they had been travelling together for several days , Cleo ordered Dauntless to pull Contralto to a halt .
8 His Disco Roadshow business , called Darlington Number One , has been hired out for several parties and functions in the Darlington area .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 ‘ The smaller ones will be rented out for several Christmases .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Worst hit were the Devon seaside towns of Sidmouth and Exmouth , which were cut off for several hours on Wednesday .
15 The whole penis is then rubbed with 33% calomel ointment which is kept on for several hours .
16 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 .
17 And yes , he 'd been working there for several days .
18 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 .
19 ‘ We 'll try again next — ’ Then he broke off , made a tiny adjustment of the device , and suddenly there it was — a rapid , fluttering little beat that was lost again for several seconds as Faye tensed and moved .
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