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 | They 're quite pricey — £13 and £8 , respectively — but , unless your hair is very long , there 's enough for several applications |
| 11 | One flew forward , obviously dead , and the others were disoriented long enough for several shots to send them sprawling across the tunnel . |
| 12 | Enough for several days . |
| 13 | So much for several million years of woodland evolution . |
| 14 | For the first time Aranyos seemed uncertain how to proceed , sucking his lip thoughtfully for several seconds before continuing , ‘ It involves looking into a curious business which could prove to be a complete dead end , namely an attack on a girl in the Bauernmarkt last Saturday evening . |
| 15 | So for several weeks she was never asked to stand still with a rider on her back . |
| 16 | The police did so for several days , but there was no further development . |
| 17 | In fact , it seemed so for several months . |
| 18 | When he died in 1800 , Mrs. Smith took over her husband 's duties and continued to do so for several years , to the satisfaction of the directors . |
| 19 | They had worked together for several years and the elder of them readily agreed to help supply the other 's son if he went into hiding in the woods above Eastertyre . |
| 20 | Happily they lived together for several weeks , until Killigrew told his young bride that duty called him to town . |
| 21 | They lay there together for several minutes gasping and perspiring . |
| 22 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 23 | Because males and females of this species encounter each other so infrequently , when they do meet they will remain stuck together for several months . |
| 24 | Even if you have not lived together for several years , from a national insurance point of view you are still considered to be married . |
| 25 | A media education programme therefore presupposes that a group of people will continue to work together for several years . |
| 26 | One afternoon , after they had been travelling together for several days , Cleo ordered Dauntless to pull Contralto to a halt . |
| 27 | BOTTLING The blender 's task completed , the whiskies he has chosen are blended , then returned to casks to marry together for several months and finally bottled . |
| 28 | Kersey and Wycliffe had worked together for several years and their temperaments complemented each other . |
| 29 | We had been hillwalking together for several years , and by this time were well aware of the strengths and weaknesses of each other 's paces . |
| 30 | The worms are prolific egg layers and an infected dog may pass millions of eggs daily for several weeks . |