Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] for several [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |
2 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
3 | The English boy used to work in the hospital for a day at a time , and then be off for several days . |
4 | Sheridan will be out for several weeks following knee surgery . |
5 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
6 | You 've just said you have n't been around for several weeks . |
7 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |