Example sentences of "[adv] for several " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman for the county council said : ‘ Before that unfortunate incident it had been working very successfully for several hours . |
| 2 | The generation of power from nuclear fission , generating intense radioactivity , has been developed and used commercially for several decades to meet part of the world demand for electrical energy . |
| 3 | Treatment is usually with the drugs amphotericin B and flucytosine , intensively for several weeks , and then fluconazole for life . |
| 4 | Again I think if Freud and Bullitt were here today , they 'd say , well look we did , in fact , have quite a lot of data , because I , Bullitt knew Wilson intimately for several years and worked with him , and er , Freud had rarely the stuff in erm , in all papers of Woodrow Wilson in the library of Congress or wherever they were , and he had a great deal of data . |
| 5 | Jackie pulled another one out of his pocket and all three munched avidly for several minutes . |
| 6 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 7 | But they appeared to vanish altogether for several years to return mysteriously to look , to whistle and back chat . |
| 8 | You may find that she will need to lean on you a little for several months to speak and act for her in matters she can not give her full attention to , because she will be quite rightly absorbed for the time being in grieving , which is mentally and emotionally very hard work indeed . |
| 9 | The Group operated quite effectively for several years and was responsible for the production of approximately two-dozen tape-slides concerned with bibliographic instruction . |
| 10 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 11 | These went on for several hours , rattling doors and windows almost continuously . |
| 12 | The Hybrid Bill procedure is also relatively speedy — 14 months from the first Channel Tunnel Bill to the final Act — when compared with major pubic inquiries which can drag on for several years . |
| 13 | They walked on for several paces in silence . |
| 14 | The whole penis is then rubbed with 33% calomel ointment which is kept on for several hours . |
| 15 | This can go on for several hours on a number of occasions two hundred or more eggs have been counted . |
| 16 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 17 | I keep it on for several days . ’ |
| 18 | Dry off gladioli corms in trays , then remove very small cormlets that have developed around the base — these will eventually flower , but only when grown on for several years . |
| 19 | The controversy smouldered on for several years fuelled by the entrenched views of some of the judges . |
| 20 | Such hopes as there may have been — American , French , even Vietminh — of a cease-fire or negotiated settlement lingered on for several months but once the French had begun fighting they presented their case , modestly , that military operations were designed with no thought of reconquest but simply to persuade the Vietminh that they had no hope of victory . |
| 21 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 22 | Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months . |
| 23 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 24 | Dexter watched the conversation between his boss and Russell rattle on for several minutes . |
| 25 | By the time he got his foot to the brake pedal they were down among the mud and the car slid on for several yards before coming to a halt . |
| 26 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 27 | Family Day at OBEX was the highlight of the year , and preparations went on for several weeks in advance . |
| 28 | He says time may be running out — it has run out for alot … this may go on for several more years — we have n't go several more years . |
| 29 | They 're quite pricey — £13 and £8 , respectively — but , unless your hair is very long , there 's enough for several applications |
| 30 | One flew forward , obviously dead , and the others were disoriented long enough for several shots to send them sprawling across the tunnel . |