Example sentences of "there [prep] [adv] a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stay there for quite a while , until I get real good and warm . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're going to have to have a fairly visible presence there for quite a while to put the authoritarian opponents on notice that we mean business . ’ |
| 3 | Liebermann , so Vincent had heard , had once established his base there for quite a while . |
| 4 | He sat there for quite a while , grinning at her , then looking away , then looking back and grinning at her again . |
| 5 | Yeah , it 's been there for quite a while . |
| 6 | So I erm , I erm , was put into the Royal Army Pay Corp and posted up to Barnet , North London and I was there for quite a while , we all transferred down to Winchester . |
| 7 | And he was there for quite a while . |
| 8 | And er he said it had been standing there for quite a while . |