Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] for some time " in BNC.
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1 | He 'll be at Stoke Mandeville for some time and will receive schooling with lessons in English . |
2 | ‘ The major bankers have also been very close to goings on in the Bond Corporation for some time . ’ |
3 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
4 | All the same , she could not bear to listen to the Sibelius concerto for some time afterwards . |
5 | These were the first nuclear stations to be built anywhere in the United Kingdom for some time , and they attracted special attention . |
6 | A stranger had been chatting with Mrs O for some time . |
7 | Inside , Monks stared at Mrs Bumble for some time . |
8 | The Airacomet was first held by Purdue University for some time after the war , evidently being utilised in an instrument testing programme . |
9 | Although SunPro 's Russian boffins are working on technology that will optimise the performance of Sparc compilers , allowing applications to run faster , it does n't look like any of their developments will benefit SuperSparc users for some time . |
10 | Milton Shulman , in the London Evening Standard , described Crawford and Corbett 's acting as ‘ two of the neatest comic performances I have seen in the West End for some time ’ . |
11 | Don has played second fiddle to Damien McCusker for some time now and his county pedigree stretches back to 1983 when he was first honoured as a Minor . |
12 | Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part . |
13 | Most of these had been producing un-hinted PostScript fonts for some time but they now all had the tools to create the all-important encrypted Type 1 fonts and had licenses to produce PostScript typesetters . |
14 | Both countries had been over-producing against their OPEC quotas for some time , helping depress prices gradually and giving rise to familiar bouts of recrimination between them and other member states with higher absorptive capacities for revenues . |
15 | ‘ Does that mean you 're going to be in New York for some time ? ’ |