Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] for some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 2 | It is in its work on health and healing , the Board of Social Responsibility has for some years now been concerned with the provision of training conferences for ministers and others involved in this aspect of the church 's commission . |
| 3 | To this end , this association has for some years now made the data sheet compendium — written originally for doctors and pharmacists — available to public libraries and , on request , to individual members of the public . |
| 4 | As before the Polish crisis , there was little protest except from the far left who kept the local Councils of Action going for some months as centres of mobilization and revolutionary propaganda . |
| 5 | This is condemnation indeed , but more crucial is the circumstance that in its diminished state , criminal law remains for some students the first impression of serious legal study . |
| 6 | This correspondence continued for some years until 1878 when they moved to late in June . |
| 7 | After the fall of Calais , when war ceased for some years , the king had to persuade the commons that direct taxes should continue in order to finance the defence of English positions abroad , notably Calais itself , and to maintain English forces in a state of readiness in case the enemy broke the truce and resumed the war . |
| 8 | The posterior root of the zygomatic process extends for some distances past the external auditory meatus as a well-defined ridge . |
| 9 | Father asked for some volunteers to help Nicky collect at the back of the Church , he has already arranged this himself . |
| 10 | A lot of ‘ behind the scenes ’ work has meant there has been little news to report for some months on the A1 Locomotive Trust 's plans to build Peppercorn Pacific No 60163 . |
| 11 | The file organisation method chosen for some files could even be serial or sequential , particularly if the data is likely to be accessed in batch mode . |
| 12 | That affair continued for some months . |
| 13 | One three-month-old baby managed to talk its parents into sending Santa a letter asking for some clothes and a few bits for the cot . |
| 14 | The increasing birth weight and viability by maternal age may also explain the strange phenomenon reported for some communities surveyed in the WHO collaborative studies . |
| 15 | The press has for some years played up the problems of UK financial reporting and has exaggerated the extent to which those problems derived from weak enforcement of standards rather than defects in the standards themselves . |
| 16 | Since females in these species become available to males over a period of weeks or months , the possibility exists for some males to mate with several females during the course of a breeding season . |
| 17 | John Lewis , the district manager in charge of Lowermoor , had been voicing his concerns about the safety of the treatment works for some years before the accident . |
| 18 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 19 | The use of a written procedure was pioneered in the House of Lords where each party has for some years been required to lodge a ‘ Case ’ with the court which is very similar to the skeleton arguments more recently introduced in the Court of Appeal . |
| 20 | Sporadic cases of the disease continued for some years and from time to time it was necessary to reopen the hospital for their reception . |