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Example sentences for "considerable time"

  • Primmins, after studying the message for a considerable time through, her spectacles.

  • Well, it appears that the rascal has been lying low for a considerable time in the house of our reverend friend, Putwood Leveson.

  • It took a considerable time for it to reach Washington, receive the approval of the administration, and be finally ratified by the Senate.

  • The men had been on half rations of hard bread for a considerable time, with but few other supplies except beef driven from Nashville across the country.

  • This guard would be encountered first and, as they were in a natural intrenchment, would be able to hold the enemy for a considerable time.

  • Nothing, however, equalled the pain of coming face to face with the man at the door; the strange look he gave me haunted me ever afterwards, and for a considerable time I avoided the pit of the Leipzig theatre.

  • As Schroder-Devrient soon left Dresden for a considerable time, the Fliegender Hollander saw only four performances, at which the diminishing audiences made it plain that I had not pleased Dresden taste with it.

  • He held out a considerable time, but at last yielded himself up for want of water, and divine power immediately intimated its agency in the matter.

  • With her he lived a considerable time in wedlock, and then divorced her, though she had made him the father of noble children; being mother of the renowned Scipio, and Fabius Maximus.

  • The Cimbri were a considerable time in doing their part.

  • When the enemy drew nigh, he bade his men stand to their arms, until he had finished the sacrifice, in which he spent a considerable time, either by some difficulty of the thing itself, or on purpose to invite the enemy nearer.

  • Any serious breach of the organic law, persisted in for a considerable time, can not but create fears for the stability of our institutions.

  • The two Governments have been uniting their efforts for a considerable time past to aid Central America in attaining the degree of peace and order which have made possible the prosperity of the northern ports of the Continent.

  • The prince evinced much satisfaction at my resolution, and entertained me handsomely at Sagres for a considerable time.

  • Yet in 1800 Radnor forest presented a conflagration of nearly twenty miles circumference, which continued to spread for a considerable time, in spite of every effort to arrest its progress.

  • It must not be supposed that the whole of what I am describing was visible to the persons about him; nor, indeed, was I acquainted with it in the extent here stated but after a considerable time, and in gradual succession.

  • It had indeed been an additional aggravation of Hawkins's calamity, that Mr. Falkland, whose interference might otherwise have saved him, had been absent from the neighbourhood for a considerable time.

  • Having read for a considerable time, they looked at me, and then at the paper, and then at me again.

  • I easily perceived, that this pursuit had one advantage to a person in my situation, and that a small number of books, consulted with this view, would afford employment for a considerable time.

  • For a considerable time I rather chose to expose myself to every kind of misfortune, than disclose the secret that was so dear to you.

  • Doctor Hillhouse made no reply to this, but sat like one in deep and, perplexed thought for a considerable time.

  • Then followed the sound of a repressed struggle, of an effort to get free without making a noise or outcry, which continued for a considerable time, accompanied by a low muttering and panting as of a man in some desperate effort.

  • He was in the supper-room for a considerable time.

  • In taking her he had provided himself with something the lack of which had left a bare place in his mind for a considerable time.

  • Mrs. Hilbery listened without making any remark for a considerable time.

  • All the softer tissues of this beetle were completely dissolved, and its chitinous integuments were as clean as if they had been [page 329] boiled in caustic potash; so that it must have been enclosed for a considerable time.

  • Those with the weakest solutions should be made on plants which have been kept for a considerable time in a warm greenhouse, or cool hothouse; but this is by no means necessary for trials with solutions of moderate strength.

  • Some bits of meat, after being left for a considerable time on the pedicels, were pushed upwards, so as just to touch the glands, and in a minute the tentacles began to bend.

  • As the aggregated masses slowly changed their forms, and as they suffered disintegration when left for a considerable time in a strong solution, there can be little doubt that they consisted of protoplasm.

  • This was truly a prize I conveyed the treasure on board, and in the economical manner in which it was used, it furnished the mess to which I belonged with a supply of fuel for a considerable time.

  • Here we purchased a large quantity of arrack, and remained a considerable time.

  • I had heard it a considerable time and at last began to suspect it was nothing, but imaginary, as many other noises I had before thought to have heard.

  • The fall, together with the beating was so severe that I was deprived of my senses for a considerable time.

  • Madame Wang indulged in thought for a considerable time.

  • And it was after she had spent some considerable time in admiring them that she repaired at last to the I Hung court.

  • The old nurse was away a considerable time on the errand.

  • They took their places just without the door, on their knees, and went through the preparation prescribed by the rules of confession; repeating certain prayers, which always occupy a considerable time.

  • The month is kept forced open, and the straining of the jaws at their utmost stretch, for a considerable time, is very distressing.

  • I have already said, that if we bandage tightly, for a considerable time, any part of the human frame, it is apt to become weaker.

  • On the contrary, if the room have been, for a considerable time, rather cool, the bath may be made several degrees cooler than in other circumstances.

  • Some are mere cartilage for a considerable time.

  • If you keep a limb extended for a considerable time, you weaken the one set of muscles; if you keep it bent, you weaken the other.

  • Now every person must see that the weight of the child's head and shoulders, resting for a considerable time on the slender cartilaginous spinal column, may easily bend it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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