Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a teenager has been feeling acutely depressed for some time , then it may only take a trigger such as exams , to tip her over the edge ( suicide is the third most common cause of death among the under 25s , and the peak months are April to July ) . |
| 2 | Play was end to end in the first half , but catching Bicester cold after a player had been down injured for some time , Wantage took the lead on thirty five minutes , when Andy Cooper brilliantly volleyed home a touch on from Jamie Alexander for a one nil half time lead . |
| 3 | Right now , the Howards are just grateful for some time to themselves . |
| 4 | SCO 's development partner DEC will have to soldier on alone , if it has not been doing just that for some time ( UX No 364 ) , if it intends to put OSF/1-for-ACE on its MIPS R4000 machines . |
| 5 | Then again , another election was not due for some time , the FDP remained loyal to the coalition and Brandt 's international reputation stood high . |
| 6 | The case remained technically open for some time , with sporadic review rather than monitoring ( because , it was said , anything requiring active intervention would have been readily made known ) ; finally events made residential care inevitable , and were immediately notified by the GP . |
| 7 | While some detectors may run as normal for some time on cheap batteries , in other cases battery life will be ridiculously short leading the operator to conclude that a detector malfunction has occurred . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's been a little crazy for some time . |
| 9 | And er he was there er two blokes had to get come get chains and get him out of it and all that and here was n't a scratch on him but erm he was off for about five or six months you know he had ee ee this brain tests and everything , the shock had er he was quite bad for some time . |
| 10 | ‘ He wo n't be very mobile for some time , ’ she said . |
| 11 | He became very depressed for some time before he could reassess himself , start to use his considerable abilities and begin courting his wife again . |