Example sentences of "stay [prep] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would stay for just an hour or so and then gather up the equipment and disappear . |
| 2 | Thus , the first ischaemic episode primarily translocates PKC into the membranes , where it will stay for about an hour . |
| 3 | Their message had been that boats should stay at least a quarter of a mile away from the whales and that sonar should never be used . |
| 4 | Miss Clinton stayed for nearly a week at Dale End before leaving to tour Scotland . |
| 5 | A Russian representative stayed for about a year in Stockholm in 1635 – 36 , and another spent four years in western Europe , mainly in the Dutch republic , in the early 1660s ; but both of these were sent for mainly commercial purposes and the second was an Englishman long resident in Russia . |
| 6 | We stayed for about an hour , then with the sisters ' greetings ringing in our ears rejoined our escort outside the walls and continued our journey . |