Example sentences of "for [adj] time [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were probably other factors at work , which have since slipped automatically into place , but the needs expressed above were evident , being expressed by a range of people , and provided a justification for investing time and resource in trying to establish a partnership with industry . |
| 2 | Every society requires its witnesses : those who are not afraid to render and preserve in words the range and scope of human experience for that time and that place . |
| 3 | Having decided how long the intervention is to last , ask the parents to run it for that time and then immediately return to the baseline condition . |
| 4 | His father was forty-nine , his mother forty-two and he weighed twelve pounds — remarkable for that time and place . |
| 5 | If yer really want ter know I 've been courtin' a widow for some time an' we 're thinkin' of settlin' down tergether , ’ he replied . |
| 6 | There are those who would tell you that BMW 's reputation for first-class finish has been on thin ice for some time but , until now , we 've seen little evidence to substantiate the claim . |
| 7 | Tubbs and Lewis ran the mill for some time but finally ceased production there . |
| 8 | Most of the songs on ‘ Bizarro ’ had been regulars in the live set for some time but newer ones like ‘ Crushed ’ and ‘ Brassneck ’ were aired for the first time over the August Bank Holiday at the Reading Festival and John Peel 's 50th birthday party on August 29 . |
| 9 | I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about . |
| 10 | With help from Wood Green Animal Shelters , Serpell made contact with people who had not had pets for some time but who were now about to get a dog or cat . |
| 11 | Out for some time but still popular are Jilly Cooper 's POLO , ( Corgi , £5.99 ) and Jeffrey Archer 's AS THE CROW FLIES ( Coronet , £5.99 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 13 | ‘ Not for some time but we are not worried , miss , it 's not unusual for the gentry , if you will excuse me saying so , to keep folks waiting for payment . ’ |
| 14 | Fujitsu has reportedly been working on a 75MHz part supposedly called Tsunami Plus for some time but still has no contract with Sun ( UX No 373 ) . |
| 15 | Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 18 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 19 | Most of these had been producing un-hinted PostScript fonts for some time but they now all had the tools to create the all-important encrypted Type 1 fonts and had licenses to produce PostScript typesetters . |
| 20 | Another man had been at the table for some time but Beales only looked at him at this point , curious to know who MacQuillan was with . |
| 21 | Neighbourhood Watch The Neighbourhood Watch has been up and running in the Baberton Mains Estate for some time but up in Juniper Green things have been much slower . |
| 22 | This doubt had been in my mind for some time but the research was undertaken due to a number of reasons . |
| 23 | Neighbourhood Watch The Neighbourhood Watch has been up and running in the Baberton Mains Estate for some time but up in Juniper Green things have been much slower . |
| 24 | Small dedicated games units had been available for some time but had always had only crude multimedia capabilities . |
| 25 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 26 | They said that Dalglish was after Batty for some time but Wilko refused to sell him . |
| 27 | We have been trying to breed Red Pandas for some time but they are very difficult . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ Mr Millman waited for some time but she failed to arrive and he stupidly decided to drive home himself . ’ |
| 29 | Mrs Thompson said : ‘ This is something I have intended to do for some time but somehow never got round to . |
| 30 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |