Example sentences of "[adv] for some " in BNC.

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1 He does not expect the effects of the Budget to be felt locally for some time .
2 If the birth of her child was to take place in London as had been arranged , then presumably for some weeks beforehand she would have to remain in the Harley Street flat , kicking her heels or at least suffering the kicks inside her , which she had greatly come to resent .
3 Nine pilots competed , the most for some years .
4 All right for some , Nutty thought despondently , thinking of the others in the warehouse feeding the horses , nothing to worry about any more .
5 All right for some on their autumn inter-city breaks .
6 All right for some !
7 But all he said was , ‘ Oh it 's all right for some , is n't it ?
8 ‘ It 's all right for some , ’ the tea-lady said . ’
9 I thought : It 's all right for some .
10 ‘ All right for some . ’
11 Maisie , from deep inside her black linen bag , was muttering about how it was all right for some people .
12 All right for some . ’
13 LUCKILY for some of us , there are politics we can all understand .
14 He had been following the narrow forest path downhill for some leagues , the trees soaring ever taller overhead , so that the sunlight came down in muted bars between the leaves .
15 Once you are familiar with the program , selections from the current menu can be made more quickly by pressing the key for the initial letter of the option you require , or you can bypass the menus altogether for some of the most frequently used options by using the predefined HOTKEYS .
16 Although cylinder manufacturers countered effectively for some decades , first with moulding techniques and later with finer grooves , the overwhelming simplicity of being able to press thousands of copies of disc records and play them on a simple machine eventually told in the disc 's favour .
17 But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come .
18 Is the Fiction too slight a foundation to build on for some understanding of these intermediate years ?
19 This went on for some time , but when it was finished , the daughter started crying again , this time tears of remorse , grieving for the mother who had died , and grieving for the relationship that she had never had .
20 However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings .
21 Playing hard to get is a game which can go on for some considerable time , especially if one has as ardent a suitor as the French .
22 This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick .
23 But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership .
24 She did n't know whether the loose wheel would come off quite soon or stay on for some miles , but she realised that sooner or later the wheel would break loose and that if Daddy or the A.A. man did n't reach her before that happened Miss Clinton would be likely to crash .
25 Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment .
26 They went on for some way in silence .
27 An ‘ abstract ’ — a summary of your claim in not more than 150 words — needs to be written for this stage , which may go on for some time .
28 The process has been going on for some time .
29 The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning .
30 This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door .
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