Example sentences of "[verb] for a [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have to wait for a more opportune time , she decided , and replaced the receiver . |
| 2 | I literally stopped seeing for a very long time . |
| 3 | It 's been arranged for a very long time . ’ |
| 4 | Once he is asleep , he sleeps for a very long time — thousands of years in fact . |
| 5 | It seems that human attention can only be sustained for a very limited time by any subject , even the prospects of its own destruction . |
| 6 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This effect persists for a relatively long time , and as there is a specific relationship between the stimuli and the responses , it is regarded as a genuine form of associative learning . |
| 10 | But then he had already had enough to keep him and many others occupied for a very long time . |
| 11 | In England this power has for a very long time been delegated , so far as barristers are concerned , to the Inns of Court : and , for a much shorter time , so far as solicitors are concerned , to the Law Society . |
| 12 | I understood what I had seen in the dream when I learned the words " gaberdine " and " mahogany " ; and I was born in the year of the New Look , understood by 1951 and the birth of my sister , that dresses needing twenty yards for a skirt were items as expensive as children — more expensive really , because after 1948 babies came relatively cheap , on tides of free milk and orange juice , but good cloth in any quantity was hard to find for a very long time . |
| 13 | If you , if you wait for a report from a salesman , you can wait for a very long time , the only piece of paper he really likes filling in is called an expense sheet . |
| 14 | Yet ironically , recent government policies have created a situation where more and more prisoners serving life and other long sentences have rather less to lose , for it has now been decreed that various categories of serious offender will not normally be considered for parole , or not considered for a very long time ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 15 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Her face looked anguished as if she had been secretly angry and victimized for a very long time and it was just beginning to seep out . |
| 18 | They did n't speak for a very long time . |
| 19 | Some have been living for a disconcertingly long time in museums ; but once doubted , the evidence of inadequacy in a fake is quite often soon in coming . |
| 20 | They had the easy familiarity of two people who knew each other very well indeed , and had done for a very long time . |
| 21 | The inflation in the early stages of the universe , which the no boundary proposal predicts , means that the universe must be expanding at very close to the critical rate at which it would just avoid recollapse , and so will not recollapse for a very long time . |
| 22 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 23 | In the spring of 1976 I decided to act on a need I had felt for a very long time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There was a flicker of response in them which Brian had not seen for a very long time . |
| 26 | McKellar argued that while more than 70 per cent of people answering a questionnaire reported at least one hypnagogic experience the actual incidence may be even higher , as " it can be overlooked for a very long time even by those who subsequently realize that they have the experience frequently … |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The irony is it 's the best team we 've had for a very long time . ’ |
| 29 | In other words , they have been allowed to grow and multiply for a sufficiently long time to produce large numbers of cells . |
| 30 | 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 . |