Example sentences of "remain [adj] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is evidence to support the case that prices will remain high for a while . |
| 2 | Isabel sighed and decided she was going to remain hungry for a while longer . |
| 3 | BARNET COPTHALL dethroned Leeds , who had remained unbeaten for a decade , for the men 's Mycil British Team Club Championship in Sheffield , while Portsmouth Northsea , pressed all the way by Nova Centurion , won the women 's title for a second year by just three points . |
| 4 | A final point on this type of clause : if what is regarded as an initially reasonable figure is inserted in standard conditions and remains unchanged for a number of years it may well have become unreasonable through the impact of inflation , either in an absolute sense , or because average contract values have increased . |
| 5 | Through such visits the doctor remains vigilant for a change in symptoms . |
| 6 | Ideas will remain valid for a year after evaluation . |
| 7 | the device remained popular for a century after its invention , finding particular favour in France , where , according to one account , it sold so quickly at a fair in Paris that the stallholder was hustled out of town by the young men of the city who saw their favourite quarry rapidly being locked away . |
| 8 | Interest rates , too , increased and remained high for a generation . |
| 9 | If prices remained high for a number of years it would become economic to develop marginal deposits in other parts of the world , such as Indonesia , New Guinea , New Caledonia , Peru and the US . |
| 10 | Although British cattle remained large for a while , they gradually reduced to an average height of 125cm at the withers by 2600 BC and by 300 BC , in the Iron Age , they were considerably smaller , averaging only 105cm . |
| 11 | Depressed and anxious patients who sought refuge from their troubles by taking an overdose remained unconscious for a time but did not die of respiratory failure or asphyxiation , as happened only too readily after an overdose of barbiturate . |
| 12 | In 1984 Siegel reported 22 cases with long term stenting ( >3 months ) , two patients ahd the proximal end of the pigtail placed accidentally within the gall bladder , all remained asymptomatic for a mean of 16.3 months . |
| 13 | Over 800 questions remained unanswered for a year , 500 for eighteen months and near 400 questions were still unanswered after two years . |
| 14 | The doors remained open for a moment but no other passengers got on . |
| 15 | I remained motionless for a while , practising the muscle relaxation techniques I had learned in drama , sending round my mental supervisor to check that every part was free from tension , at the same time , striving to calm myself mentally , to empty my mind by focusing on the One , then dismissing that also . |
| 16 | Carson looked at the colonel , who remained silent for a couple of moments , then nodded , slowly , twice . |
| 17 | When Loretta stopped speaking , Veronica remained silent for a minute . |
| 18 | She remained silent for a while , evidently turning something over in her mind . |
| 19 | She looked down at her handbag and remained silent for a while . |
| 20 | Ace remained silent for a moment , unable to tear her eyes away from Richmann . |
| 21 | Johnny remained silent for a time , and then said : |
| 22 | This instinctive anti-Americanism was revealed most clearly during the Gulf War , in which the pretence that the Basic Law prevented them from sending troops was a mere figleaf for their initial failure to offer any political support to the American-led campaign ( Genscher remained silent for a week after the fighting began , although he and Kohl tried to make amends later ) and for their inexcusable prevarication about supporting Turkey in the event of an attack by Iraq . |