Example sentences of "[adv] for many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hot gases from pyrites burners , mixed with steam , were passed over small blocks of moulded salt , a process which worked successfully for many years ; the works was absorbed by the United Alkali Co. in 1890 and the last Hargreaves–Robinson saltcake plant closed in 1918 . |
| 2 | The great metabolic activity of insects during flight is indicated by their greatly increased oxygen consumption under these conditions ( e.g. Davis and Fraenkel , 1940 ) and as flight continues uninterruptedly for many hours in some species , a reserve of oxidizable material is required ( Sacktor , 5970 ) . |
| 3 | He was a good journalist and one I 'd known professionally for many years . |
| 4 | The work continued under another architect , but the death of Marino , combined with the vast expense of the building together with the losses his surviving family also suffered at the hands of the new Spanish governors , meant that work stopped altogether for many years . |
| 5 | In a profession often noted for self-promotion and expediency she had become a trusted friend , hostess and shoulder to lean on for many . |
| 6 | This trade carried on for many years , but as a result of more advantageously located competition , it finally ceased working in about 1930 . |
| 7 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 8 | After this final fatal episode the eruption dragged on for many months , lasting well into 1903 . |
| 9 | On and off for I , 500 years it has been served by a community of canons ; but an eighth-century archbishop implanted monks in its precinct , and the canons failed to depart — so that from that time on for many centuries there were two communities competing for the use of the church , and from about 835 for the golden altar which is one of the supreme glories of Carolingian art . |
| 10 | It is an idea the Pru has been working on for many years , and Mr Lawrence has been at the forefront of the plans . |
| 11 | Though modern readers might wish to repay Mr Ruskin 's ‘ hard work ’ recorded in a 1854 entry , with hard labour , the practice of dismembering books went on for many centuries . |
| 12 | The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow . |
| 13 | And they 'd go on for many years with incredible perseverance , believing when they had no reason to believe , when it was crazy for them to believe . |
| 14 | an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts . |
| 15 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 16 | He says without it the war would have gone on for many more years . |
| 17 | The main point is to raise money for Christian Aid , and although preparatory work goes on for many months , the 3 weeks during which the Church is used for sorting , and them selling , seem to bring out all the best feelings . |
| 18 | Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years . |
| 19 | But it will be enough for many people that the Poll Tax will cost her the next general election . |
| 20 | Not only had its hold been too strong for that among considerable sections of the population , but the conditions of the immediate post-war era were miserable enough for many to compare them unfavourably with the peacetime era under Nazism . |
| 21 | The criterion of legality is enough for many parents , and understandably so : a criminal conviction is a handicap and a label that may stick for life . |
| 22 | Such small gains were incentive enough for many . |
| 23 | Work , paradoxically enough for many small landowners and peasants , is actually an ‘ escape attempt ’ , a means of being independent from large-scale farms and other industrial enterprises . |
| 24 | A variety of holidays in locations at home and abroad including guided tours have been arranged for them annually for many years . |
| 25 | Select part , or all , of the following paragraphs , according to whether the parties have been recently widowed/divorced or alone for many years . ) |
| 26 | The numbers may need to be scaled down for many readers from sending 100 to sending twenty , but a growing group of churches from all denominations and streams want to do this . |
| 27 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 28 | Madam Speaker in view of the fact that the real value of pensions has gone down for many years now following the break . |
| 29 | Perhaps for many of the fans the best moment of all came at the end of the fifth Test , when Tony Greig went out and ‘ grovelled ’ before them . |
| 30 | It seems to me indisputable that , in our culture , adolescence constitutes just such a crisis — perhaps for many people the major one — but because it is one with which we are all familiar , I do not intend to delineate it in detail . |