Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] [verb] for several " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resigned to being detained for several minutes , Melissa forced herself to be pleasant , making suitable replies to his comments on the weather and agreeing that it was a bit unsettled , that frost was still likely to be a problem but was only to be expected at this time of year . |
| 2 | What is certain is that he carried the legend of a king or emperor waiting to be reborn for several centuries , just as the British King Arthur has done . |
| 3 | Life went on , and pottery and other artefacts continued to be made for several decades at least . |
| 4 | In each case , after charging , measurements of heat had to be made for several hundreds of hours and repeated at several different levels of current , between 0.05 and 1.5 amps corresponding to a current entering each square centimetre of surface of the rods of 8 and 64 mA. ( mA means a milliamp or thousandth of an amp , not a million amps as incorrectly stated in one newspaper . ) |
| 5 | Antibiotics are also prescribed for acne treatment and need to be given for several months at a time to be effective . |