Example sentences of "can [verb] for many " in BNC.

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1 It can persist for many years .
2 Activity-dependent synaptic potentiation occurs within milliseconds and can persist for many hours in the anaesthetised animal or in the in vitro hippocampal slice preparation , and for days when induced in the freely moving animal .
3 We found that chronic constipation in young children can persist for many years .
4 They can remain for many years in cold and hostile environments while retaining their toxicity , and they have a tendency to remain in living organisms .
5 Uncomfortable feelings absorbed from those who seek our help ( and that includes simply offering a sympathetic ear ) , can linger for many hours or even days — unless we learn how to dissipate such feelings .
6 Public health officials did all in their power to stop the 1964 pie going ahead ; there was a typhoid epidemic in Aberdeen in the 1960 's and it was found that the last serious epidemic before that had been in Denby Dale in the 1930's , and the infection can linger for many years .
7 Sharp variations in a time series can occur for many reasons .
8 As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations .
9 What is useful is the idea that research and study in a particular field or discipline can proceed for many people for quite long periods in a relatively routine or normal way , without continually digging up the roots .
10 The comparison is an unsatisfactory one since there are important differences in the life histories of the two species : male kittiwakes can breed for many more seasons , adult mortality is not so strongly age-dependent and females can fledge up to three young per year ( see Coulson , 1966 , 1968 ; Coulson & Wooller , 1976 ; Wooller & Coulson , 1977 ) .
11 1 The expression 4p +2 can stand for many numbers depending on what number p is standing for .
12 These organisms can live for many years inside the body causing intense itching and other symptoms , including eventual blindness .
13 SSDs can charge for many services .
14 The classic styles of drop shoulder , set-in sleeve , raglan and saddle shoulder sweaters are undoubtedly the shapes that most of us knit on a regular basis , so the Standard version of Designaknit can cater for many of your day to day knitting pattern requirements .
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