Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv prt] for several " in BNC.
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1 | He says time may be running out — it has run out for alot … this may go on for several more years — we have n't go several more years . |
2 | TELL your friends that you are going to the Cape Verde Islands and , in all probability , their eyes will glaze over for several seconds while they frantically try to recall their long-forgotten school geography . |
3 | Tom Eisner and Stephen Nowicki , of Cornell University , noticed that the spiders that use stabilimenta build long-lived webs that can stay up for several days . |
4 | The Hybrid Bill procedure is also relatively speedy — 14 months from the first Channel Tunnel Bill to the final Act — when compared with major pubic inquiries which can drag on for several years . |
5 | This can go on for several hours on a number of occasions two hundred or more eggs have been counted . |