Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] for some time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He does not expect the effects of the Budget to be felt locally for some time .
3 If you have struggled alone for some time you may be pleasantly surprised at what is now available to you .
4 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 .
5 The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century .
6 they have worked together for some time and they 're likely to go on working together , ’ said Mr Capper .
7 She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington .
8 There were signs that Sir Charles had stood there for some time .
9 He could not say when , but the horse dung and the faint indentations in the dry earth showed riders had stood there for some time .
10 Near the Salt Tower he found the gravel-strewn slush had been disturbed , indicating someone had stood there for some time .
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