Example sentences of "[noun] for [adv] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iris has known Philippe for quite a long time . |
| 2 | The adventure ties up a computer for quite a long time . |
| 3 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 4 | Well here , here are char for example , this is a female , you see the , the white line on the fins and the very pale pink spots , this will actually get gradually more highly coloured until about December when they will be quite bright red , and , and in my opinion not a question really , but might be that some of these other ones are pretty nice as well here 's quite a , quite a dark little trout , probably been in the light for quite a long time , right now nevertheless that 's a female as well just a couple more famous small ones here , that 's a young salmon , that 's really a beauty . |
| 5 | This obviously is n't going to come up as an issue for quite a long time , since transcribing this 'll be a long time . |
| 6 | I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time . |
| 7 | Then I worked for Jimmy Young for quite a long time … he saved my bacon . |
| 8 | Repairing gutters is not a job for the fainthearted since it involves working up a ladder for quite a long time . |
| 9 | Soon after I got my English A-level , mum learned that she had to go into hospital for quite a long time . |
| 10 | Well of course Miss MacDonald would n't have would n't mind you to keep a book for quite a long time . |
| 11 | from er statement banks for pupils for quite a long time and why |
| 12 | Chairman the St Albans traffic issue , the erm bus for quite a long period of time but throughout that period of time Chairman the County Council 's decision has been absolutely clear . |
| 13 | The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university . |
| 14 | Because people who 've been in the press for quite a long time were using this before we took over the telephone system . |
| 15 | Er I do n't , I ca n't even remember whether I had anything for mother in forty-three and forty-for , but I do know there was a death for quite a long time . |
| 16 | My hands got very cold too , but my mother helped me every morning by baking two potatoes in their skins for me to keep in my pockets ; they retained their heat for quite a long time . |