Example sentences of "[adv] for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does not expect the effects of the Budget to be felt locally for some time . |
| 2 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 6 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 7 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 10 | This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door . |
| 11 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 12 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 13 | I hear his couchée going on for some time . |
| 14 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 15 | I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters . |
| 16 | ‘ This may go on for some time , Christina , and could get very complicated . |
| 17 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 18 | The lame recital went on for some time , while Jerome , piteously small and shrunken and wretched , kneeled in Rhun 's supple , generous arm , with that radiant , silent face beside him , to point searing differences . |
| 19 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 20 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 21 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 22 | Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on . |
| 23 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 24 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 25 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 26 | This went on for some time , with Dr Neil fencing politely , Matey looking grim , and Norton sighing in counterpoint to la Darrell . |
| 27 | This went on for some time . |
| 28 | It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long . |
| 29 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 30 | . We still have n't got a name for this er facility , been dragging on for some time . |