Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | The walls were lined with bookshelves , each shelf crammed with books , mostly in long sets of leather-bound volumes that looked as if they had not been read , or touched , or even dusted for a very long time . |
| 32 | The irony is it 's the best team we 've had for a very long time . ’ |
| 33 | On the whole , Kit ignored their questions , sued for a little more time , talked of harvests and animals ' breeding cycles . |
| 34 | In other words , they have been allowed to grow and multiply for a sufficiently long time to produce large numbers of cells . |
| 35 | Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall . |
| 36 | From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin . |
| 37 | Some of the landforms , especially if they are depositional , may be quickly destroyed , but forms cut into resistant rocks may be preserved for a very long time . |
| 38 | And Anjelica Huston returned to her own home saying that she had been humiliated for the very last time . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | The Mass and Vespers nicely illustrate the stylistic dichotomy of church music which was to last for a very long time and which Monteverdi had already distinguished in the foreword to his Fifth Book of madrigals as prima and seconda pratica . |
| 41 | Monday arrived , as we set out we had two major obstacles to overcome , firstly not getting lost in Budapest ( which we achieved for the very first time ) and secondly getting through the border between Hungary and Romania . |
| 42 | Christian festivals had coexisted for a very long time with ancient non-Christian celebrations . |
| 43 | It is a factor recognised for a very long time in relation to language learning . |
| 44 | Oddly enough , his father , whom Peter had known for a much shorter time , was quite distinct in his memory , right down to the smell of Palmolive shaving cream and Gold Leaf cigarettes . |
| 45 | It 's been known for a very long time that from these cases you can isolate this organism C diphtheria bacterium which you saw in the practical classes and has this distinctive stayed property where er certain granules can be stayed up and also the arrangement of the cells is rather reminiscent of what called Chinese lettering . |
| 46 | It was impossible to do anything except admit something that she had known for a very long time . |
| 47 | The 'phone rang for a very long time and when Mrs Pettifer eventually answered she sounded quite put out . |
| 48 | What I will tell you , and I will tell for the very first time , is that I personally dealt with people whose future may well have been considered under the terms of the AMO . |
| 49 | The saturation resulted in rain , which fell for a very long time . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Therefore , before a conclusion is reached , tests must be continued for a sufficiently long time to demonstrate an adequate shelf-life in the market concerned . |
| 52 | We will only know the answer to this and many other questions when televising has continued for a much longer time . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | The vogue of the Klan lasted for a relatively short time , but at its height , it may have had five million members . |
| 55 | Despite episcopal censures , the practice continued for a surprisingly long time ; measures were taken to stop Irish clergy so cohabiting as late as the sixth century . |
| 56 | The man at Capital told me to hold on , and I waited for a very long time . |
| 57 | She also turned out to be the last close friend I had for an awfully long time . |
| 58 | T n tracts of T 9 GCA 9 persist for a relatively long time adds further weight to the suggestion that these are caused by ligand-induced alterations in local DNA structure , rendering it more susceptible to attack by this nuclease . |
| 59 | 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 . ’ |
| 60 | Laboratory experiments can only last for a relatively short time , and have to be held within the confines of the laboratory . |