Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the developed world , the harnessing of fossil fuel energy as well as other scientific developments , and their application to agricultural systems , has opened up a new range of agricultural possibilities : but all this has happened over a relatively long time period and is not without its environmental implications . |
| 5 | We will only know the answer to this and many other questions when televising has continued for a much longer time . |
| 6 | That he did n't manage to cover the remaining 146 miles does n't really matter , for his peregrination from Battery Park to Times Square makes one of the most intriguing accounts of an asphalt jungle to have appeared in a very long time . |
| 7 | The corrosion emanated from the joint between the bottom of the pressure dome and the fuselage and there was nicotine tar staining on the edge of the corroded area indicating that it had developed over a relatively long period . |
| 8 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 9 | They had the easy familiarity of two people who knew each other very well indeed , and had done for a very long time . |
| 10 | In the spring of 1976 I decided to act on a need I had felt for a very long time . |
| 11 | The irony is it 's the best team we 've had for a very 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 . ’ |