Example sentences of "[conj] for some time " in BNC.

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1 The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle .
2 This , coupled with the gossip that for some time surrounded the couple , soon convinced the constables they had the right people .
3 It seems that for some time the firm had been issuing such promissory notes and having them endorsed by its local bank in Bihać ( where , incidentally , the partisans held the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the Liberation of Yugoslavia ) .
4 In the Victorian era , however , the burden of interest payments resulting from earlier wartime borrowing caused such concern that for some time budget surpluses were run in order to reduce the national debt .
5 They had bought a house in London so that for some time each year they could be in England , and now , with the baby almost due , Felipe had brought Maggie back .
6 so it meant that for some time before contingency fund development was introduced you must of had some concerns er about the accuracy of the figures you were putting forward for the publication , can , can I explain that a little more ? if after a few years a major repair needs to be carried out there was no contingency fund , it might mean sticking another two or three hundred pounds a year on the service charges , might it not , to cover a major repair
7 And with Venus in your own sign between February 2 and June 6 , there has to be more love and fulfilment around than for some time .
8 In fact he is probably feeling fresher and sharper now , hungrier to resume his England career than for some time .
9 ‘ The paperback market had now improved somewhat , and we believe that book production capacity and demand are more in balance than for some time ’ , he added .
10 Whether due to Anglo-American action or not , the Middle East became temporarily quieter than for some time .
11 Ian Rock , the chief executive , said yesterday : ‘ The group 's position is more stable than for some time , but it still requires a substantial improvement in the economy and a solution to the group 's gearing before it can achieve satisfactory returns on shareholders ’ funds . ’
12 Gradually they learn to discriminate , although for some time they can not determine what is influencing the mother 's movements towards or away from them .
13 I was partly convinced by Culler 's power of persuasion , and for some time thought that the kinds of analysis he described could be assimilated to practical criticism and the English synthesis .
14 During the years of World War N and for some time afterwards there had been a heavy demand for commercial and military explosives but by 1960 when Haslam was made personnel director of the Nobel Division of ICI the demand , particularly for military explosives , had dropped dramatically .
15 The kidnappings were a traumatic event and for some time the Gombe Stream Research Centre was closed to students .
16 It did n't require much capital to manufacture the equipment or produce the short films , and for some time it was possible for small craftsmen on the British model to keep up with the big boys in France or the US .
17 But a more puritan era of egalitarian austerity could make them a lot shyer — and for some time to come .
18 They waved once and I waved back , and for some time I could see their bright jackets in the dappled shade of the afternoon sun .
19 the machinery of exchange and distribution established by recent decrees was quickly pushed aside ; and for some time the most effective instruments in extracting grain from the peasant were the ‘ iron detachments ’ of workers from towns and factories reinforced by the local committees of poor peasants .
20 At the time , neither Ruskin Road nor the following Beynon Road had been made up or developed and for some time , the trams ran on what in effect was reserved track .
21 He entered , and for some time stood alone and unrecognised on the Turkey carpet , seeing among the well-to-do crowd not a soul he knew except Dr Heatherton , in the distance , talking with someone ; and Mrs Heatherton , followed by her bevy of obedient daughters , their skirts rustling prosperously wherever they went .
22 When questioned at the time , and for some time afterwards , as to what the novel was ‘ about ’ , I would reply vaguely that it referred to a period in my life in the 1960s , when I was married to a successful pop star and spent much of my time travelling up and down motorways , lulled with anti-depressants and sitting , an immobile non-person , in the back of a sealed , silent and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce .
23 And thus I can say that both on the moment of this resolution and for some time afterwards I had more sublime and happy feelings than at any former period of my life . ’
24 After independence 200,000 Europeans fled the city and for some time it appeared to be uninhabited , a city decimated by plague .
25 Often they stay quite still when disturbed and for some time afterwards , making it even more difficult to spot them .
26 What is happening now , 1975 — and for some time past , is material evolvement , leaving spiritual evolvement to stagnate in the pond of Man 's Over-Conscious Analysis Of His Own Deeply Natural Sub-Conscious Development ( e.g. Christianity 's mistaken conscious self-analysed identity ) .
27 Traditionally , Mother and Baby Homes were religious-based , charity-run institutions that took in girls who had " fallen " , and cared for them during their pregnancy and for some time afterwards .
28 The letter , ‘ I ca n't forgo principles ’ , was reportedly published at the behest of Ligachev and for some time it was believed that Andreeva was the pseudonym of a conservative member of the leadership .
29 A car with headlights on came towards him , cautiously negotiated the hairpin bend , and for some time afterwards he could hear it grinding up the hill to Albert Terrace .
30 Wycliffe did not look up from the statements and for some time Sara gave no sign that she had heard ; then she said : ‘ I 've been very stupid .
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