Example sentences of "be [verb] for several [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At the alleged places of detention , ’ Mr Ahtisaari said , ‘ the facilities were found to have been stripped of all valuable material and not to have been inhabited for several weeks at least . ’ |
| 2 | • In rodents , rhythms continue to develop in animals that have been reared for several generations in constant conditions . |
| 3 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 4 | Any tank that has been running for several months in a typical down-flow system will eventually become clogged and packed down . |
| 5 | Antibiotics are also prescribed for acne treatment and need to be given for several months at a time to be effective . |
| 6 | It can however be arranged for several bills within one household to be included on the same payment . |
| 7 | It is advisable for children to be given inactivated polio vaccine as the live vaccine contains polio virus which may be shed for several months after being taken . |
| 8 | It is advisable for children to be given inactivated polio vaccine as the live vaccine contains the polio virus which may be shed for several months after being taken . |
| 9 | Life went on , and pottery and other artefacts continued to be made for several decades at least . |
| 10 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 11 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 12 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 13 | The two men were held for several hours by more than 100 students who occupied the Ministry of Education in protest at the non-payments of grants and university registration procedures . |
| 14 | • In rare instances , new-born babies have been studied for several months in a constant environment in a hospital ward . |
| 15 | Road pricing , which involves charging drivers directly for their use of the road network , has been advocated for several years as a means of reducing congestion and environmental impact . |
| 16 | Many people are taken away hooded and chained and are interrogated for several days before being released . |
| 17 | The JET project was delayed for several years in the 1970s , while the council of ministers vacillated between giving the project to ISPRA , Garching in West Germany and Culham . |
| 18 | In 1918 , at the invitation of ( Sir ) Ronald Storrs [ q.v. ] , the military governor of Jerusalem , he was seconded for several months to Palestine to advise on the renewal of crafts and light industries destroyed during the war , and worked closely with C. R. Ashbee [ q.v. ] , the governor 's civil adviser and secretary to the Pro-Jerusalem Society . |
| 19 | Rationing of sweets , like food and clothing , was continued for several years after the war was over , and people like me with a sweet tooth used to bemoan the meagre ration of sweets and chocolate we were allowed . |