Example sentences of "[verb] for [adj] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst I have said 2 years as the expected time to be collecting Community Charge I think this should be qualified with 2 years plus , with income being received for some considerable time thereafter especially through Sheriff Officers . |
| 2 | But progress may nevertheless be very slow and unemployment will persist for some long time . |
| 3 | Strangely , her mother 's moods , Agnes had noticed for some long time now , were more evident in the evening . |
| 4 | This way of seeing the development of databases can be misleading because it should not be implied that either each new generation will replace the previous generation ( all these systems will be used for some foreseeable time in the future ) or that each new generation is necessarily better than the previous one ( the appropriateness or otherwise of an approach will depend on the organisation and its applications ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Because that 's one of those questions we could debate for some considerable time . ’ |
| 6 | Some parents even said they had been aware of being watched for some considerable time . |
| 7 | NuTcracker is supposedly unbiased toward any particular brand of Unix although the second version of NuTcracker , scheduled for some unspecified time in the future , should add Sun 's Solaris 1.0 calls . |
| 8 | C-FDFC , C-FTBA and C-FYQS are expected to be flying for some considerable time , as the Freighter 's life is measured in landings , and each of the trio have about 6,000 landings remaining , ensuring their continued employment . |
| 9 | Organisations have known for some considerable time that the acquisition , distribution and effective use of information is a key factor in gaining a competitive advantage . |
| 10 | I failed to realise for some considerable time the importance of commitment from the top down . |
| 11 | It is very important indeed to ensure that the staff of G C H Q are not subject to potential conflicts of interest and as I said earlier the Prime Minister and I listened for some considerable time to the s to er to the points put forward by the trade unions to see whether or not that overriding er national objective could be maintained but we were not convinced , we were not convinced that erm the trade unions could overcome those potential conflicts of interest and it behoves ill the party opposite to try and put a different gloss on the fact that we in this country thanks to our legislation , have put harmony in place of strife and we are not prepared to allow the opposition to put that major achievement at risk . |
| 12 | Mama was rehearsing , that was all ; but it should perhaps have been kept for some other time . |
| 13 | First , there have for some considerable time been proposals on the table for cycle facilities around Teviot Place . |
| 14 | said : ‘ It appears to me that , when the plaintiffs demanded payment of their debt , and in consequence of that application the defendant agreed to give certain security , although there was no promise on the part of the plaintiffs to abstain for any certain time from suing for the debt , the effect was , that the plaintiffs did in effect give , and the defendant received , the benefit of some degree of forbearance ; not indeed , for any definite time but , at all events , some extent of forbearance . ’ |
| 15 | But they had been chosen for some little time already . |