Sentence examples for which lay for from inspiring English sources

Several works in the collection have all but come back from the dead, like the fragments from the Cairo Geniza, which lay for 800 years in the attic of the medieval Ben Ezra Synagogue in Egypt before they were discovered in the late 19th century.

The quid pro quo for a properly focused Fund and Bank is greater willingness on the part of Congress and the administration to give more aid of their own explicitly, either to serve national-security goals or to pursue development objectives which lie, for whatever reason, outside the scope of the institutions.

The oceanic location protects the islands from snow, which lies for only about a dozen days per year.

The Welsh government has previously said that Ms Griffiths had written to councils about the challenges which lay ahead for all public services in Wales and the financial outlook for 2015-16 and beyond.

The number of Iowa chickens lost exceeds 26m, the vast majority of which lay eggs for food use.

At the heart of the development is Battersea power station, which lay derelict for three decades before its Malaysian owners came up with an £8bn facelift plan.

It is claimed Mr Hazell murdered the schoolgirl that night at the home he shared with Ms Bicknell, before hiding her body in the loft, which lay undiscovered for a week.

Like Anthony LaPaglia's star turn in The Balibo Conspiracy, a gripping fictionalisation of the disappearance of five Australian TV journalists during the East Timor invasion of 1975, the truth of which lay undiscovered for over 30 years.

Different initial values of the small signal models can influence both frequencies and damping ratios of oscillation modes, which lay basis for further damping strategy study.

A set of "internationally significant" Roman Baths which lay hidden for almost 2,000 years could be opened to the public in a restoration project announced by Exeter Cathedral.

(He even allowed that entirely different formulae be used, but we shall not describe that part of his theory, which lay fallow for many years).