Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] for several " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is certain is that he carried the legend of a king or emperor waiting to be reborn for several centuries , just as the British King Arthur has done . |
| 2 | In each case , after charging , measurements of heat had to be made for several hundreds of hours and repeated at several different levels of current , between 0.05 and 1.5 amps corresponding to a current entering each square centimetre of surface of the rods of 8 and 64 mA. ( mA means a milliamp or thousandth of an amp , not a million amps as incorrectly stated in one newspaper . ) |
| 3 | Life went on , and pottery and other artefacts continued to be made for several decades at least . |
| 4 | Antibiotics are also prescribed for acne treatment and need to be given for several months at a time to be effective . |
| 5 | This enables oxygen to be stored for several minutes , and during prolonged periods of submersion an accessor valve between the heart ventricles can be opened to bypass the function of the lungs . |
| 6 | In fact this is not an attempt to reverse pollution , but something more complicated : to create a plan that would enable Lake Ichkeul , in Tunisia , to be used for several different purposes simultaneously . |
| 7 | Many early stations were simply large barn-like structures , a form which was to be used for several decades . |
| 8 | Resigned to being detained for several minutes , Melissa forced herself to be pleasant , making suitable replies to his comments on the weather and agreeing that it was a bit unsettled , that frost was still likely to be a problem but was only to be expected at this time of year . |