Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 2 | ‘ The real singer of that name was indisposed , and was likely to remain so for some time . |
| 3 | ‘ Cider is a good area at the moment , ’ says co-author Philip Shaw , ‘ and is likely to remain so for some time . |
| 4 | It concluded that the Simonian concept of state medicine was far in advance of public opinion and was likely to remain so for some time to come . |
| 5 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 6 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 7 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 8 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 9 | This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 10 | He paced about for some time , looking agitated . |
| 11 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 12 | The train was electrically lighted , and in order to economise current when the train had to stand by for some time , nearly every lamp was under separate control . |
| 13 | This fascinating story is one of many such in Roger Lonsdale 's anthology of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets , not just a marvellous piece of scholarship but as richly entertaining and original a book as I have come across for some time . |
| 14 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 15 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 16 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |
| 17 | He does not expect the effects of the Budget to be felt locally for some time . |
| 18 | He stood looking down for some time . |
| 19 | If you have struggled alone for some time you may be pleasantly surprised at what is now available to you . |
| 20 | While Visa debit cards have been accepted internationally for some time , the Mastercard equivalent , Switch , is still waiting to be linked up to the Mastercard/Eurocard payment system . |
| 21 | ‘ No more dressing up for some time . |
| 22 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 23 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 24 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 25 | I hear his couchée going on for some time . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 28 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 29 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 30 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |