Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [det] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 2 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 3 | I have been teaching machine knitting for some time and often come across pupils who have experienced the same problem . |
| 4 | However , the patient is likely to continue coughing for some time after the antibiotics have been stopped , and the sputum that is produced when the patient coughs will be found to contain numerous pus cells on microscopic examination . |
| 5 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 6 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |
| 7 | What 's more , he 'll go on improving for some time because he was a late starter at 24 and he is still developing . ’ |
| 8 | He was speaking for some time and when he had finished he turned to his wife . |
| 9 | They relaxed , sagging apart , but lay without moving for some time after the car had departed . |
| 10 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 11 | Colleagues in local government have been saying for some time that the Government have said that , at some point , the revenue collection services in local authorities would be privatised and would go out to tender . |
| 12 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |
| 13 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 14 | The Schuman Plan was based on ideas which had been circulating for some time but was devised in detail by Jean Monnet , who was in charge of France 's economic modernisation programme . |