Example sentences of "and [noun] for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth drew a deep breath , summoned all her courage , and blurted out the question which had been churning in her mind day and night for some time . |
| 2 | Mine had been letting in sand and water for some time . |
| 3 | The cervix ( the neck of the womb ) remains soft and elastic for some time and the vagina remains distended , but these will return to normal with time although the vaginal outlet will be permanently widened from its original state . |
| 4 | We 've had problems at Allbright and Wilsons for some time on a change of working pattern , but this is just a modern way that companies have got today of de-manning people . |
| 5 | He had been watching Clare and Underwood for some time , but without much of interest developing . |
| 6 | There had been some sort of clandestine liaison between the lady and Darrel for some time . |
| 7 | The problem of combining various aspects of an object into a single image was one which , it has been seen , had concerned Picasso and Braque for some time . |
| 8 | There has been a substantial differential in interest rates between the UK and USA for some time — currently it 's six or seven per cent . |
| 9 | The theory was most exhaustively worked out for countries in Latin America , where it swept the board among academics , politicians , bureaucrats and militants for some time under the general rubric of the dependency approach . |