Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] for some time " in BNC.
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1 | The knowledge that we would not see restaurants or hotels for some time gave a poignancy to our days in Aswan . |
2 | Ruth drew a deep breath , summoned all her courage , and blurted out the question which had been churning in her mind day and night for some time . |
3 | Mine had been letting in sand and water for some time . |
4 | The cervix ( the neck of the womb ) remains soft and elastic for some time and the vagina remains distended , but these will return to normal with time although the vaginal outlet will be permanently widened from its original state . |
5 | We 've had problems at Allbright and Wilsons for some time on a change of working pattern , but this is just a modern way that companies have got today of de-manning people . |
6 | He had been watching Clare and Underwood for some time , but without much of interest developing . |
7 | There had been some sort of clandestine liaison between the lady and Darrel for some time . |
8 | The problem of combining various aspects of an object into a single image was one which , it has been seen , had concerned Picasso and Braque for some time . |
9 | There has been a substantial differential in interest rates between the UK and USA for some time — currently it 's six or seven per cent . |
10 | The theory was most exhaustively worked out for countries in Latin America , where it swept the board among academics , politicians , bureaucrats and militants for some time under the general rubric of the dependency approach . |