Example sentences of "stay [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Might be about When we start work we could stay up a little bit later . |
| 2 | Cutting down on training , together with a natural apprehension , may make sleep a little harder to come by in the last few days , so staying up an extra hour may actually help . |
| 3 | Once you have established better eating habits , cut out the empty calorie foods , and achieved your target weight by a slow , careful process of calorie control , you should find staying there a natural follow-up . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd like to stay down a little while — hear more about your family , too . |
| 5 | They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place |
| 6 | We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight . |
| 7 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
| 8 | He was very interested in Jenna 's accident and stayed quite a long time . |