Example sentences of "us [prep] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | DESPITE the advent of cassettes and CDs the analogue record is likely to be with us for some time yet , and in every amplifier used for playing them is an equaliser to modify the signal derived from the pick-up cartridge . |
| 2 | Granny had been living with us for some time . |
| 3 | An aggressive mob of youngsters had been closely dogging us for some time and , emboldened by our apparent failure to notice them or to quicken our pace , had begun throwing stones . |
| 4 | ‘ Mark , ’ she began , ‘ you 've been with us for some time . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've turned her loose in the hotel boutique , ’ Roman murmured , ‘ so she wo n't want either of us for some time . ’ |
| 6 | Underground work is going to be with us for some time . |
| 7 | Most of these newer techniques of systems analysis and design have in fact been with us for some time , but were not brought together until the publication of the above texts . |
| 8 | The back is a delicate instrument , and so finely tuned that nearly everyone of us at some time has experienced some sort of back problem . |
| 9 | British Red Cross director-general Mike Whitlam said : ‘ We hope she will be able to travel with us at some time . ’ |
| 10 | er and they might be coming up to stop with us at some time over Easter |
| 11 | But you see the important thing about this scene is not what is taking place there it 's not really that Pilate is standing in , in the trial as the judge of Jesus , it 's not that Pilate has i , within his hands the power of life and death for Jesus , that 's not the important issue , that 's not the real significance of this incident , the real significance is that every one of us at some time or other stand in the same place that Pilate stood . |
| 12 | So many of us keep so many medicines on our shelves for donkeys years in the hope that we might find a pill that will suit us at some time . |