Example sentences of "[verb] for a long time [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
2 | We have accepted for a long time that traumatic stress incidents are the basis of an industrial injury claim . |
3 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
4 | It had been known for a long time that histamine was responsible for producing many allergies and the first antihistamine drug was produced in France in 1937 . |
5 | We have also known for a long time that morphine cures diarrhoea . |
6 | Delighted about Jim , apprehensive for Jasper , Alice lay for a long time awake in the silent room . |
7 | Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan . |