Example sentences of "[adj] for several " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has been outstanding for several weeks now — and he 's got real pace , which you ca n't find these days , never mind buy it . |
| 2 | Those who had come by train had the same problem as the trains for the return journey were not due for several hours . |
| 3 | The demonstration remained friendly for several hours . |
| 4 | At first it was easy enough to evade supervision , and my weight remained stable for several weeks . |
| 5 | It is possible for several separate LIFESPAN systems to be established on the same computer configuration , each with its own allocation of resources , perhaps for contractual reasons . |
| 6 | On one occasion , he noted that curtains had been put between three of the beds in the aged women 's ward , and thought this undesirable for several reasons — having reference to cleanliness and ventilation . |
| 7 | Adult worm burdens are typically in excess of 40,000 , although lower numbers are often found in animals which has been diarrhoeic for several days prior to necropsy . |
| 8 | Anti-terrorist squad officers have been on maximum alert for several months and have been expecting ‘ a spectacular ’ IRA bomb in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 9 | The standard of manual design has traditionally been very low for several reasons . |
| 10 | When Huw reappeared , having lain low for several days , his scars and bruises were beginning to fade and nothing more was said on either side . |
| 11 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 12 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 13 | After casting about in vain for several minutes to pick up their quarry 's lost line , their frustration had abated into impatience and Satan had led the pack off in the direction of the tree-line to the westward . |
| 14 | Pottery has a limited life , determined by the function of the vessels , and thus store jars kept secure in a pantry may remain intact for several generations , while cooking pots , if in constant use , have a very short life . |
| 15 | Via infected leaves these winter spores enter the soil where they can remain alive for several years . |
| 16 | His letter contained an account of all the birds he had seen : a common goatsucker that flew gracefully round and round the ship for an hour , although it had ‘ in all probability passed the night on the wing ’ ; a female yellow wagtail that alighted only for a moment ; numerous petrels , five of which he killed for himself , and one for use in Mr Yarrell 's work ( a History of British Birds ) ; a flight of swallows , and several small turtle doves , which ‘ visited the ship [ and ] went off again immediately ’ ; a kestrel which was killed ‘ from off the Rigging ’ ; a short-eared owl which flew on board during the night , was caught and kept alive for several days ; and hundreds of shearwaters , which surrounded the ship off Madeira and the Salvage Rocks . |
| 17 | Now the above models , while useful descriptions of experimental results , can not add to our knowledge of the distribution of stress in a composite solid for several reasons . |
| 18 | The Catch 22 problem was that for several years there had been few big headlines about fusion as no dramatic breakthroughs had been occurring . |
| 19 | The Moscow newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda suggested that one of the reasons why Pogosyan was resigning was that for several days he had been unable to secure an audience with Gorbachev to discuss developments in Armenia . |
| 20 | At the Court of Appeal today , Rachael 's solicitor explained that he 'd been frightened of losing the children , and that for several weeks before the killing he 'd been taking medication for depression . |
| 21 | Vologsky considered this for several minutes . |
| 22 | I chose this for several reasons . |
| 23 | She resisted this for several months , not wishing to loosen her control of urban policy , but eventually she capitulated giving the responsibility to Mr Kenneth Clarke , Minister for Trade and Industry . |
| 24 | And you rub backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , and I ground like this for several hours every night , after I came home , for three months . |
| 25 | This passage is interesting for several reasons . |
| 26 | TOPR is fine but only for those who can afford to be effectively unemployed for several months . |
| 27 | Make the base with Oasis to keep the flowers fresh for several days . |
| 28 | Raw fruits also keep well if stored in the fridge , where they will remain fresh for several weeks . |
| 29 | It was now that the Greeks ( illiterate for several centuries , since the clumsy syllabary evolved in the later Bronze Age had died with the social system it served ) borrowed the suppler consonantal alphabet developed by the Phoenicians and improved on it by using some of the symbols for vowels . |
| 30 | The probability of a particle getting out of a black hole of the mass of the sun would be very low because the particle would have to travel faster than light for several kilometers . |