Sentence examples for lost for some from inspiring English sources

"Sinead O'Connor has seemed lost for some time," he wrote.

The Makahs last killed a whale in 1999, after regaining a treaty right to do so that had been lost for some 70 years.

Such behaviour is clearly adaptive if eggs are lost for some reason and if other environmental stimuli are present, the missing eggs are replaced.

It suggests that the amount of life lost to stress varies significantly for people of different races, educational levels and genders, and ranges up to nearly three years of life lost for some groups.

Several copies are known to exist of this scene from the Leonardo mural, which was painted in 1504 for Florence's Palazzo Vecchio and has been lost for some 500 years, despite numerous attempts to locate it.

In another sort of redemption, "The Life of the Jews in Palestine" -- which was produced in 1913 by the Odessa-based Mizrakh Company and presumed to be lost for some 80 years -- has resurfaced in New York.

The truth is that we had been losing for some time.

"Buried deep in all our brains are phenomenal abilities, which we lose for some reason as we develop into 'normal' conceptual creatures.

And then the Romans came, and all was lost for quite some time.

The article was lost for years — some of Mr. Obama's campaign advisers said they had heard of its existence and went looking for it, presumably to see if it contained anything that might prove embarrassing.

But she insists all is not lost for British tennis: there are some promising players - and she doesn't just mean Andy Murray.