Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] a long time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hyacinth took a long time to respond . |
| 2 | Although the academic study of Roman law took a long time to have practical effect , by the 1170s and 1180s it was occasionally cited authoritatively in some at least of the courts of the south . |
| 3 | Sims took a long time to think about answering that . |
| 4 | While some customers took a long time to make decisions , other very complicated projects took longer than anticipated to organise . |
| 5 | Christine de Pizan was born in 1365 and wrote The Book of the City of Ladies in 1405 ; the battle for women 's right to equal education took a long time to win . |
| 6 | And erm you know I know that was one difficulty , that people had a long time to wait for repairs . |
| 7 | Since ch'i occupies the place in Chinese cosmology corresponding to matter in ours , Westerners took a long time to grasp how very different it is from what we understand by matter . |
| 8 | All fairly straightforward though the coded letter we recovered from his baggage took a long time to crack , while his shaving kit will never be the same again after each piece was stripped to its component parts by one participant . |
| 9 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 10 | The Geometricks styler took a long time to heat up . |
| 11 | And the City took a long time to wake up to Europe 's moves towards monetary union ; its bid to host a European central bank was made later than most others . |
| 12 | The gizzard-stone treatment meant that food took a long time to digest . |
| 13 | The College in Coleman 's reign took a long time to recover from the difficulties of its early days . |
| 14 | O'Hara took a long time to kick-start the motorbike from the kerb . |
| 15 | The four-cylinder engine was more reliable in 1957 , but BRM took a long time to realise that the P25 's air strut suspension — carried over from the V16 — was the cause of its savage oversteer . |
| 16 | She agrees with Gnome Pfeiffer ( coauthor of The Experience of Infertility , Virago ) that feminists took a long time to put infertility on the political agenda , and she suggests that this is partly due to attitudes toward motherhood . |
| 17 | The sinews of political and economic integration required to enable the expanded raising of resources by the Crown took a long time to create . |
| 18 | But many of the boys took a long time to get over their paralysed state . |