Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although cylinder manufacturers countered effectively for some decades , first with moulding techniques and later with finer grooves , the overwhelming simplicity of being able to press thousands of copies of disc records and play them on a simple machine eventually told in the disc 's favour . |
| 2 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 3 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 4 | With their creation , the institutional pattern is settled and seems likely to remain so for some years to come . |
| 5 | ‘ The real singer of that name was indisposed , and was likely to remain so for some time . |
| 6 | ‘ Cider is a good area at the moment , ’ says co-author Philip Shaw , ‘ and is likely to remain so for some time . |
| 7 | It concluded that the Simonian concept of state medicine was far in advance of public opinion and was likely to remain so for some time to come . |
| 8 | The British Standard BS 6652 for child resistance is granted to specific combinations of bottle and cap and has been given only for some makes of closures on BS 1679 bottles , which are the ones we use in this hospital . |
| 9 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 10 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 11 | I phoned down for some eggs , toast and a quart of coffee . |
| 12 | The various caveats expressed in 6.8.4 on the use of statistical techniques by sociolinguists are not as negative as they might seem , since recently the overuse of significance testing in social science research generally has come in for some criticism . |
| 13 | However , the NRA has come in for some criticism for not taking action . |
| 14 | When a basalt flow has cooled sufficiently for some sort of crust to form , one of two possible things can happen . |
| 15 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 16 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 17 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 18 | And you think that you 're lucky to be alive in that respect , but I 've never really thought that I was specially picked out for some reason to carry on living . |
| 19 | There are instances when a valid subsidence or heave claim is received but the Policyholder does not wish to have the repairs carried out for some reason e.g. elderly Policyholder does not wish upheaval , can not pay the policy excess . |
| 20 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 21 | This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 22 | He paced about for some time , looking agitated . |
| 23 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 24 | The train was electrically lighted , and in order to economise current when the train had to stand by for some time , nearly every lamp was under separate control . |
| 25 | This fascinating story is one of many such in Roger Lonsdale 's anthology of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets , not just a marvellous piece of scholarship but as richly entertaining and original a book as I have come across for some time . |
| 26 | My father had proceeded to stand there for some moments , saying nothing , merely holding open the door . |
| 27 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 28 | FOOTBALL : PSV Eindhoven coach Bobby Robson has had part of his large intestine removed in an operation and is not expected to work again for some weeks . |
| 29 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 30 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |