Example sentences of "for [adv] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may mean they have been going together for as little time as a few weeks , and a relationship of more than a month or two may be regarded as serious . |
| 2 | The room , reached this time from the veranda , was just as lovely as she had remembered , and after folding some clothes neatly in drawers and hanging the rest on satin-padded hangers in the wardrobe she fussed for quite some time with the scanty collection of knick-knacks she had brought , trying to arrange them so that they harmonised with the tranquil simplicity of the décor . |
| 3 | Having talked for quite some time about his own maturation as a screenplay writer , Sixsmith said , ‘ Now . |
| 4 | For quite some time after publication of Principia Ethica , its type of ethical intuitionism seems to have been the dominating moral philosophy in Britain , though not in America . |
| 5 | Atomstyle has been supplying the various bits for building PCs to dealers for quite some time by now , and so the cases and motherboards it supplies fit together really well . |
| 6 | They 'll often put up with dripping taps and wobbly shelves for quite some time before being motivated to fix them . |