Example sentences of "[v-ing] for several " in BNC.
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| 1 | After fumbling for several minutes , his arms aching desperately , he was able to push up the catch . |
| 2 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 3 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 4 | Delay-start/Pre-set/Auto-start delays cooking for several hours , perhaps while you are out . |
| 5 | This seems to indicate a deep , free , and intensive time of prayer , when the Spirit takes over and controls and leads the prayers , and one can go on praying for several hours without being aware of the passage of time . |
| 6 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 7 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 8 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 9 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
| 10 | There is some evidence that cervical cancer is more common in women who smoke cigarettes , especially heavy smokers or women who have been smoking for several years . |
| 11 | Following his daughter 's death , Hugo ceased writing for several years . |
| 12 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 13 | Manning Jackson had been fretting for several minutes . |
| 14 | Not only did he bring his delightful driving skill to the team but also his vast engineering knowledge and the two combined to make Cooper one of the leading forces in Grand Prix racing for several years . |
| 15 | Danielle recommends massaging the oil gently into the affected areas twice daily after a warm bath , and then relaxing for several minutes afterwards . |
| 16 | Because of the finite resistance of the secondary winding it will be necessary to balance the bridge for more than one value of R 1 in order to find M. Balancing for several values of R 1 permits a graph to be drawn of the balance value of R 3 versus . |
| 17 | He 'd managed to track her down on the Friday evening , waiting for several minutes as she was summoned to the communal phone in the hall where she was now a deputy warden . |
| 18 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 19 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
| 20 | The outcome was a savage persecution lasting for several centuries , perpetrated against an animal whose only serious task was to rid human habitations of infestations of disease-carrying , food-spoiling rats and mice . |
| 21 | The driver took the little engine and the two men looked at it silently , not speaking for several minutes . |
| 22 | The sick flocked to him , and in 1666 he toured England , staying for several months in Lincoln 's Inn Fields , where he treated a great number of sufferers with varying success . |
| 23 | I told the housekeeper that I would be staying for several days , and then went straight to my aunt 's room . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 25 | If , for instance , there has been a cold wind blowing for several days and the water temperature has been well down for the time of year , then the wind ceases and the sun brings a sudden warmth to the water , you can almost guarantee that the carp will begin to feed . |
| 26 | I just screamed as loudly as I could — more from the shock than anything else , and I did n't stop crying for several hours afterwards . |
| 27 | Duncan , whose health had been failing for several years , died in West Park , Elgin , 23 May 1863 . |
| 28 | The UK government measures the lead in tapwater that has been running for several minutes , as it would be if you had a bath in it , and not the first few pints or cupfuls , as you would use for cooking or making a cup of tea . |
| 29 | Central government and the Water Authorities have deliberately hidden the truth from the water-consuming public by failing to conduct surveys ( for example , not collating data on pesticides ) , using misleading types of measurement ( for example , lead from tapwater running for several minutes ) , and simply withholding information ( as at Camelford and in Dumfries and Galloway ) . |
| 30 | Wasting of the large muscles starts after 24 hours , so having to lay off running for several weeks could have a considerably detrimental effect on muscle power . |