Example sentences of "[verb] for several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is not possible ( and it usually is n't ) , the golden advice at the present time must be to sell first rather than risk lumbering yourself with the crippling expense of having to borrow for several months or possibly longer . |
| 2 | Customers are no longer prepared to wait for several months for their chosen pattern . |
| 3 | At Sudeley ( Glos. ) , for instance , which Gloucester held between 1469 and 1478 , the key offices went to John Huddleston junior of Millom , initiating a family connection with the county which endured for several generations . |
| 4 | At Sudeley ( Glos. ) , for instance , which Gloucester held between 1469 and 1478 , the key offices went to John Huddleston junior of Millom , initiating a family connection with the county which endured for several generations . |
| 5 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sarah schemed for several weeks before daring to put forward a proposal . |
| 8 | After fumbling for several minutes , his arms aching desperately , he was able to push up the catch . |
| 9 | Her children had families of their own and her husband was n't due to retire for several years . |
| 10 | When I was convalescing after that last virus , my Good Samaritans in Cotherstone arranged for me to have the Meals on Wheels service for several weeks . |
| 11 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 12 | It can however be arranged for several bills within one household to be included on the same payment . |
| 13 | During April and May the pilot arranged for several lessons with a microlight instructor using the instructor 's own aircraft ; completed in a total flight time of four hours , these flights covered mainly upper air handling with little practice in takeoffs and landings . |
| 14 | Instructions are given for several neckbands , but everyone has their own pet neckband . |
| 15 | Antibiotics are also prescribed for acne treatment and need to be given for several months at a time to be effective . |
| 16 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 17 | The other scandal is the doctrinaire attitude of Labour-controlled councils such as Plymouth city council which , when Labour took control in May this year , halted for several months the previous Conservative policy of selling land to housing associations at concessionary prices , enabling rents to be kept down and output to be increased . |
| 18 | The legend that Crabb was taken back to Russia alive continued to circulate for several years and indeed still does , helped by a number of books claiming to be based on secret information from the East . |
| 19 | If the general practitioner pronounces the patient fit enough , he may be able to start driving a car again , although he may need to retake a driving test if he has not been able to drive for several months . |
| 20 | So great was Rodrigo 's grief that he was almost paralysed for several weeks . |
| 21 | I lay for several days in a small wooden room , convinced for some reason that I was on an ocean-going ship . |
| 22 | Australian Cricket Board manager Graham Halbish said doctors had ordered Waugh not to bowl for several months after diagnosing a stress fracture of his lower back — a legacy of the recent Ashes tour of England . |
| 23 | If it gets into your eyes , you may be unable to see for several hours . |
| 24 | • In rodents , rhythms continue to develop in animals that have been reared for several generations in constant conditions . |
| 25 | Proportional hazards analysis was used to estimate relative risks adjusted for several covariates . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Restlessly , she returned to the office , then recalled that the answering machine had not been checked for several hours . |
| 28 | All have doctorates in musicology from either Cambridge or Oxford ; two are currently associated with King 's College , Cambridge ( where the wellsprings of the English a cappella renaissance are to be found ) , and one has taught for several Oxford colleges that are also medieval choral foundations . |
| 29 | After this flight the aircraft was de-rigged again and not flown for several weeks . |
| 30 | Further , his duties were substantially a continuation of those which he had undertaken for several years in connection with Tutorial Classes and the annual summer school arrangements . |