Example sentences of "for several " in BNC.
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| 1 | The releases mark the first improvement in the human rights situation in Malawi for several years . |
| 2 | In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months . |
| 3 | Before their arrival at Heathrow , their passports and tickets were confiscated ; when the British Airways plane landed , they were separated from the other passengers , put into a van and driven around for several hours before being forced back on the plane and sent out of the UK . |
| 4 | Most of these exercises are double cast so that there are good opportunities for several readings of the main characters . |
| 5 | It becomes clear after one has been working at something for several weeks , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that one is not going to achieve what one had hoped for . |
| 6 | The thick porridgy liquid is left for several hours while the natural sugars in the malt dissolve into the liquor . |
| 7 | Thomas Hardy 's Ale , brewed by Eldridge Pope , has an OG of 1126 degrees and each small bottle has to be laid down for several years before it is ready to drink . |
| 8 | The program — written to operate in a UNIX ‘ open systems ’ environment — includes a central diary management system with simultaneous access for several locations by multiple users . |
| 9 | Of course , if for any reason you have to leave your garden for several months , the best thing you can do is to sow a suitable green manure . |
| 10 | By this time , though , the lice have probably been in the hair for several weeks . |
| 11 | They had worked together for several years and the elder of them readily agreed to help supply the other 's son if he went into hiding in the woods above Eastertyre . |
| 12 | War had been declared , and the fate of Czechoslovakia , Austria and Poland was sealed , as it would be for several other countries . |
| 13 | for several years Leonard had attended various camps held for youngsters whose parents were able to afford to send them . |
| 14 | To this Leonard went , and there he stayed for several months , playing his part in the Pullman household under the terse agreement : ‘ If you stay , you 'll pull your weight , like the rest of us ’ ; ensconced in a lively family atmosphere for the first time in years . |
| 15 | In earlier work , he and others had established that the cortical-evoked potential , and also direct cortical stimulation , had to persist for several hundred milliseconds before subjects reported feeling anything . |
| 16 | So although the ERP had to persist for several hundred milliseconds before the subject felt anything , they nevertheless reported that the sensation had occurred at the moment when the ERP was beginning . |
| 17 | I went dry between my legs for several seconds , then I charged again . |
| 18 | The English boy used to work in the hospital for a day at a time , and then be off for several days . |
| 19 | The press apparently had expected Steffi 's invincible reign to last for several years — when last year Graf had a bad year ( by her standards ) the men and women of the press understandably searched for reasons for it — and voiced them . |
| 20 | This retardation effect continues for several growing seasons and produces an indented conical depression . ’ |
| 21 | The opportunity to review the Cogelow tools was welcomed for several reasons . |
| 22 | For several years BR had been trying to persuade the government to authorise the East Coast main line electrification ; after considerable discussion this was eventually agreed in July 1984 . |
| 23 | Modern cook-chill processes , using liquid nitrogen , chill partly cooked food very rapidly to just above freezing point at which temperature it will keep perfectly for several days . |
| 24 | Longer-term planning forced BR to embark upon life-extension programmes for several locomotive types expected to be needed until well into the 1990s , although they were halted in 1989 before being completed . |
| 25 | It can be that magic moment in such dances as the Rose Adage in The Sleeping Beauty when Aurora triumphantly raises her hand from the fourth Prince 's grasp and holds the final attitude for several seconds revealing her complete command over the forces of gravity . |
| 26 | If the right foot remains there for several bars , the arms will be held still , but as soon as the left moves in front the arms will change . |
| 27 | Thomas Hardy 's Ale , brewed by Eldridge Pope , has an OG of 1126° and each nip bottle has to be laid down for several years before it is ready to drink . |
| 28 | Part of Mount Elgon is a national park , a protected area for several species of animals , including elephant and buffalo . |
| 29 | The second solution can be left for several hours , or overnight , when the wood should then be scrubbed with clean water to which a little acetic acid has been added . |
| 30 | Leave the brush in the oil for several hours , or longer , and then remove it and squeeze out the oil and work the brush backwards and forwards over plain brown paper or the side of a clean carton . |