Example sentences of "were [vb pp] for [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least 3 specimens were examined for each time point . |
| 2 | The vials were changed every 10 minutes so that fractions of 4 ml were collected for each time interval . |
| 3 | His plans were thwarted for some time as no-one knew what had happened to the trophies . |
| 4 | Similarly other hard information is scant , for instance James Braid who laid out the ‘ links ’ as they were called for some time , is not mentioned until the sixth meeting on October 29th ; that is four months after the first nine holes were opened , and even then the reference is vague . |
| 5 | The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ . |
| 6 | He opened with ‘ Forever For Now ’ , the title of his latest album , and did later did ‘ It Had To Be You ’ from the soundtrack of ‘ When Harry Met Sally ’ , but good old weepies like ‘ Drifting ’ were kept for another time . |