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Example sentences for "for many"

  • For many minutes we lay silently gripping hands; Harry was trembling violently from nervous fatigue, and I myself was unable to speak.

  • For many seconds we stood bewildered, too dazed to speak or move.

  • There were movements on the ground, for many of them had been wounded; a man cannot always reach the spot in the dark.

  • For many minutes I gnawed away at those thick cords like a dog on a bone.

  • No child should be allowed to disturb the room or to interfere with the quiet of those who are studying, for many children, more than one would think, really come to study.

  • It would seem desirable, also, for many reasons, to have the children's department not too far removed from the main circulating department.

  • For many years, too, these Brethren at Fulneck employed a congregation doctor; and the object of this gentleman's existence was not to build up a flourishing practice, but to preserve the good health of his beloved Brethren and Sisters.

  • For my own part, I readily concur with you in supposing that house-doves are derived from the small blue rock-pigeon, for many reasons.

  • Now that the state of doubt was over, I felt, for many days, like one in a dream.

  • For many months I travelled with this ever-darkening cloud upon my mind.

  • At last they rowed away toward the northward, for many a weary day, till their water was spent, and their food eaten; and they were worn out with hunger and thirst.

  • We went out many, and come back few, for many a noble comrade have we lost.

  • He was living in Portugal, the kings of which country had, for many years, fostered the exploration of the coast of Africa, and were pushing expeditions farther and farther South.

  • It had been built in what is called the Vega, the great fruitful plain which extends for many miles to the westward of Grenada.

  • I have thrown these few notes together, because the subject of them was well known to me for many years.

  • For many weeks I thought of poison, and then of drowning, and then of fire.

  • For many days my sufferings were excessive, so that I often wished myself back in that milder purgatory of the forest, from which I had been so anxious to escape.

  • When the substance of this speech had been made known by Rima to the dying woman, she suddenly rose up from her couch, which she had not risen from for many days, and stood erect on the floor, her wasted face shining with joy.

  • For many reasons, to be explained later, the people concerned objected to the Bill.

  • It was impossible, for many reasons, that the woman in the 'rickshaw could be the girl he had known.

  • Not more than about sixty thousand in this province, for many of the tribes broadly described as criminal are really vagabond and criminal only on occasion, while others are being settled and reclaimed.

  • From that day, for many years, the name of her lost Andrew never passed her lips in the hearing of her grandson, and certainly in that of no one else.

  • It would not do, for many reasons, to go oftener to the shoemaker's, especially now that the days were getting longer.

  • There is a time for feeling without knowing why one feels; and that period ought not to have been passed for young Wright for many a year.

  • Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.

  • Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off.

  • And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.

  • So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

  • The war is waged chiefly against the Indians near the Cordillera; for many of the tribes on this eastern side are fighting with Rosas.

  • Miasma is not always produced by a luxuriant vegetation with an ardent climate; for many parts of Brazil, even where there are marshes and a rank vegetation, are much more healthy than this sterile coast of Peru.

  • It is very odd that, in a country where mining had been extensively carried on for many years, so simple a process as gently roasting the ore to expel the sulphur previous to smelting it, had never been discovered.

  • And he began to preach to them in their synagogues, for they had built synagogues after the order of the Nehors; for many of the Amalekites and the Amulonites were after the order of the Nehors.

  • Oh, do not be alarmed; I have been so for many days.

  • Franz protested he could not defer his pursuit till the following day, for many reasons.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for many" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for even; for having; for his mercy endureth for ever; for instance; for nothing; for years; force equal; force pump; forced marches; foreign assistance; foreign corn; foreign interference; foreign lands; foreign stamps; form part; formal declaration; former part; forming drugs; fortnight later; forty pounds; forty yards; forty years; grace would; royal state; silk purse; special privilege