Example sentences of "and [prep] some time [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
2 | It did n't require much capital to manufacture the equipment or produce the short films , and for some time it was possible for small craftsmen on the British model to keep up with the big boys in France or the US . |
3 | After independence 200,000 Europeans fled the city and for some time it appeared to be uninhabited , a city decimated by plague . |
4 | The letter , ‘ I ca n't forgo principles ’ , was reportedly published at the behest of Ligachev and for some time it was believed that Andreeva was the pseudonym of a conservative member of the leadership . |
5 | They waved once and I waved back , and for some time I could see their bright jackets in the dappled shade of the afternoon sun . |
6 | They managed to send Richard to school and at some time he attracted the notice of the lawyer-priest Thomas de Nevill , later Archdeacon of Durham , who gave him a grant to study at Oxford when he was about thirteen or fourteen years old . |
7 | She was tackling this man on his own terms and at some time she would be doing it head-on . |