Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] for [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For heterosexuals up to 1991 , the peak of HIV infection had yet to be reached and so one can expect a continued rise in the annual incidence of AIDS cases for some time to come . |
| 2 | The right hon. Gentleman will be all present on the Opposition Benches for some time to come and will not be leading for Britain at future NATO summits . |
| 3 | Britain 's Vivienne Westwood has been taking the historical fantasy tablets for some time . |
| 4 | Coun Bob Brady , the council 's housing committee chairman , said : ‘ Financial restrictions have prevented us from building council houses for some time . |
| 5 | Coun Brady said : ‘ Financial restrictions have prevented us building council houses for some time . |
| 6 | One involved the successful launch of its cookery book , Cooking to Please , and the other was because it won the contract to provide in-house catering to the main council sites for second time . |
| 7 | Its formidable bulk means that you are unlikely to want to carry it about with you if you can avoid it , but that has probably been true of most audit manuals for some time now . |
| 8 | ‘ Unfortunately , ’ the midwifery speaker told us , ‘ we do n't have facilities in our district for home births for first time mums . ’ |
| 9 | We do n't have chips very often , I make them now and again , I have n't bought any chip shop chips for some time , we 're having some Friday , cos er Eileen rang up Derek to say they were coming and said tell mum not to get anything ready we 'll bring her some fish and chips . |
| 10 | The accelerating walkway has been a gleam in the eye of town and transport planners for some time . |
| 11 | The alleged conspirators had been under surveillance by customs officers for some time before arrest . |
| 12 | Opinion polls for some time have shown a growing mood of disenchantment in Germany with developments within the EEC . |
| 13 | If the normalised ( i.e. in ratio to the white card reading ) reflectance values for this time are aberrant , then this indicates that the reflectance measurements respond non-linearly to the illumination level , which must then be strictly controlled , or else a correction must be established . |
| 14 | They had been on Christian name terms for some time now . |
| 15 | The party , which had failed to gain any seats in the June federal and republican elections , had been riven by policy disagreements for some time and was reputedly heavily indebted . |
| 16 | However , being the ‘ magician ’ that he is , the demonstration proved to be a truly amazing spectacle — one which will undoubtedly be discussed in school staff common-rooms for some time to come . |
| 17 | Faced with poor trade figures for some time to come , it is an important question . |
| 18 | Indicating that it can no longer afford to keep Unix SVR4 out of its price book , the Unix SVR4 personality comes out of DEC 's CalComp/Telecommunications labs which of course , has been quietly supplying SVR4 to the firm 's telecomms customers for some time . |
| 19 | Although SunPro 's Russian boffins are working on technology that will optimise the performance of Sparc compilers , allowing applications to run faster , it does n't look like any of their developments will benefit SuperSparc users for some time . |
| 20 | Most of these had been producing un-hinted PostScript fonts for some time but they now all had the tools to create the all-important encrypted Type 1 fonts and had licenses to produce PostScript typesetters . |
| 21 | Both countries had been over-producing against their OPEC quotas for some time , helping depress prices gradually and giving rise to familiar bouts of recrimination between them and other member states with higher absorptive capacities for revenues . |
| 22 | But it does not necessarily hold these monopoly rights for all time . |
| 23 | Analysts said the surge in demand for marks followed the poor inflation figures the day before , which investors believe will prevent a cut in German interest rates for some time . |
| 24 | The fact we have got a good track record and have been serving the pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals industries for some time means we can get work but we have to cut our margins . |