Example sentences of "very long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eighty years does n't seem a very long time when you consider the art of acting has been prospering in Europe over the last four hundred or so years , quite apart from the great traditions of ancient Greek drama . |
| 2 | The 'phone rang for a very long time and when Mrs Pettifer eventually answered she sounded quite put out . |
| 3 | ‘ As far as the grassroots are concerned we have got one , and I hope we have her for a very long time . ’ |
| 4 | It seemed like a very long time ago when I and others followed Lovat into this house . |
| 5 | If you rehearse in different rooms , setting up the equipment randomly , then it will take you a very long time to achieve this ( the chances are you never will ) . |
| 6 | Most of us have been with our artists a very long time . |
| 7 | It has been a shareholder for a very long time in some private companies and I think we 've become known to be a supportive shareholder . |
| 8 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 9 | It takes a long time to warm up , a very long time , but then I sleep as though practising for death . |
| 10 | The subordinate status of professionals lasted a very long time indeed . |
| 11 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 12 | ‘ It took a very long time to reconcile myself with my father . ’ |
| 13 | It is important to have been about for a very long time . |
| 14 | For her part , Mrs Thatcher emphasised that the references to future German unity in the declaration was ‘ a very carefully drafted section and we spent a very long time on it ’ . |
| 15 | Owen O'Neil agrees : ‘ There 's no major comedy circuit in Northern Ireland in the way there is in London , but people have survived for a very long time on the strength of their own sense of humour . ’ |
| 16 | Like all other departments we have been established a very long time and therefore have the experience and the knowledge in dealing with lettings . |
| 17 | SOUL was once — a very long time ago — the sound of a psyche breaking up , shattered by desire or loss — a wracked catharsis , an ailing , dejected , broken sound , essentially tragic . |
| 18 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've worked together for a very long time . ’ |
| 20 | Then the man spoke his first word in a very long time as he looked at Beth panting away . |
| 21 | If you have been hunting for the perfect diet for a very long time it will be difficult to stop , actually to believe that good weight control can be established without resorting to one special diet that you go on ( and then , and this is the snag , come off again ) . |
| 22 | Christian festivals had coexisted for a very long time with ancient non-Christian celebrations . |
| 23 | And this pays in the results you get only after a very long time . |
| 24 | After a very long time the young man had not reappeared . |
| 25 | If ever this ended , I thought , I would n't go walking in woodland for a very long time . |
| 26 | Vienna Dear Fräulein Arandt , It is a very long time since I heard from you . |
| 27 | We have been a nation state for a very long time . |
| 28 | Short trousers , grubby knees , odd socks , and a pair of indescribable shoes that had belonged to his elder brother , completed the picture of a happy child , unlikely to be able to spell simple words like ‘ class ’ for a very long time . |
| 29 | Riverside conditions such as that , must have continued to exist for a very long time , for when the Romans arrived and established — about A.D.47 — a settlement astride the River Fleet where it ran into the north bank of the River Thames , the River Fleet was about two hundred yards wide at that junction . |
| 30 | We waited a very long time in growing unease . |