Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for [art] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Many people with this disease are able to continue to work for a very long time and there is no evidence to suggest that her condition and the error are necessarily linked . ’ |
| 2 | I literally stopped seeing for a very long time . |
| 3 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 4 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 5 | I am delighted to hear that St Nicholas ' Church , long known for its association with sailors and the sea , is launching an appeal to create a special maritime chapel , something the city has lacked for a very long time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 8 | They had the easy familiarity of two people who knew each other very well indeed , and had done for a very long time . |
| 9 | In the spring of 1976 I decided to act on a need I had felt for a very long time . |
| 10 | The irony is it 's the best team we 've had for a very long time . ’ |
| 11 | She reached across the desk , grabbed the instrument and began tapping out a number with the angry , impatient air of someone who has been kept waiting for an unacceptably long time . |
| 12 | Christian festivals had coexisted for a very long time with ancient non-Christian celebrations . |
| 13 | It was impossible to do anything except admit something that she had known for a very long time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 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 . ’ |