Example sentences of "[adj] for several [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has been outstanding for several weeks now — and he 's got real pace , which you ca n't find these days , never mind buy it . |
| 2 | Those who had come by train had the same problem as the trains for the return journey were not due for several hours . |
| 3 | The demonstration remained friendly for several hours . |
| 4 | At first it was easy enough to evade supervision , and my weight remained stable for several weeks . |
| 5 | On one occasion , he noted that curtains had been put between three of the beds in the aged women 's ward , and thought this undesirable for several reasons — having reference to cleanliness and ventilation . |
| 6 | Adult worm burdens are typically in excess of 40,000 , although lower numbers are often found in animals which has been diarrhoeic for several days prior to necropsy . |
| 7 | Anti-terrorist squad officers have been on maximum alert for several months and have been expecting ‘ a spectacular ’ IRA bomb in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 8 | The standard of manual design has traditionally been very low for several reasons . |
| 9 | When Huw reappeared , having lain low for several days , his scars and bruises were beginning to fade and nothing more was said on either side . |
| 10 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 11 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 12 | After casting about in vain for several minutes to pick up their quarry 's lost line , their frustration had abated into impatience and Satan had led the pack off in the direction of the tree-line to the westward . |
| 13 | Pottery has a limited life , determined by the function of the vessels , and thus store jars kept secure in a pantry may remain intact for several generations , while cooking pots , if in constant use , have a very short life . |
| 14 | His letter contained an account of all the birds he had seen : a common goatsucker that flew gracefully round and round the ship for an hour , although it had ‘ in all probability passed the night on the wing ’ ; a female yellow wagtail that alighted only for a moment ; numerous petrels , five of which he killed for himself , and one for use in Mr Yarrell 's work ( a History of British Birds ) ; a flight of swallows , and several small turtle doves , which ‘ visited the ship [ and ] went off again immediately ’ ; a kestrel which was killed ‘ from off the Rigging ’ ; a short-eared owl which flew on board during the night , was caught and kept alive for several days ; and hundreds of shearwaters , which surrounded the ship off Madeira and the Salvage Rocks . |
| 15 | Via infected leaves these winter spores enter the soil where they can remain alive for several years . |
| 16 | Now the above models , while useful descriptions of experimental results , can not add to our knowledge of the distribution of stress in a composite solid for several reasons . |
| 17 | This passage is interesting for several reasons . |
| 18 | TOPR is fine but only for those who can afford to be effectively unemployed for several months . |
| 19 | Raw fruits also keep well if stored in the fridge , where they will remain fresh for several weeks . |
| 20 | Make the base with Oasis to keep the flowers fresh for several days . |
| 21 | It was now that the Greeks ( illiterate for several centuries , since the clumsy syllabary evolved in the later Bronze Age had died with the social system it served ) borrowed the suppler consonantal alphabet developed by the Phoenicians and improved on it by using some of the symbols for vowels . |
| 22 | The probability of a particle getting out of a black hole of the mass of the sun would be very low because the particle would have to travel faster than light for several kilometers . |
| 23 | She stood paralysed for several moments on Giles Carnaby 's doorstep . |
| 24 | Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home . |
| 25 | Right on the Brown Street corner was The Round of Beef public house which was closed by Eldridge Pope & Co. , the Dorchester Brewers in 1926 when it remained empty for several years . |
| 26 | These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up . |
| 27 | The gallery has been empty for several years . |
| 28 | It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised . |
| 29 | A third of its beds have been empty for several years . |
| 30 | The flats will have to stay empty for several weeks |