Sentence examples similar to tarrying for some time from inspiring English sources
Days before the arrival of Hillary Clinton, America's secretary of state, and smack dab in the middle of confusions to do with the custody of Chen Guangcheng, the boffins in charge of America's foreign affairs have made things much tougher than they might have done, had they tarried for some weeks or months.
The hobbits, on their journey home from Mordor, arrive in the region of Eregion and stay for a week: or, rather, as Tolkien puts it, "Here now for seven days they tarried, for the time was at hand for another parting which they were loth to make".
In this dispute most Puritans shied away from extremes and supported some form of episcopacy, but a small number went beyond even Cartwright and Field in seeking to effect immediately a "reformation without tarrying for any".
No one said anything for some time.
The school has struggled for some time.
For some time, there was great beauty.
"This has been coming for some time.
This has been building for some time".
Not for some time, the Army says.
Neither seems particularly feasible for some time.
