Example sentences of "[prep] [art] long time [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 After a long time the boy crossed the road and said to Oliver ,
2 After a long time the man came in and said , ‘ Mr Evans , please . ’
3 After a long time the computer said slowly , ‘ Computer is old . ’
4 This hypothesis was for a long time a subject of much contention in anthropology and is not even now entirely laid to rest , but the meagre historical record we possess can not possibly support such an assertion .
5 This , the kylix par excellence , remains for a long time a vehicle for some of the finest vase-drawing , in the ton do and in many figured compositions between the handles .
6 For a long time the boy maintained a defiant silence and did n't look at his father .
7 Signora Silvana Ciammarughi , the owner and creator of this unique establishment , nursed for a long time the dream of acquiring some old house of character , converting it and running it as a hotel .
8 For a long time the building was attributed to Inigo Jones , something people much enjoy doing .
9 For a long time the type remained quite insignificant , but in recent years the increasing attention has added many new varieties , and a few miniature standards are also now available .
10 In the modern Hebrew Bible all numbers are written out in full , but for a long time the text was written without vowels .
11 For a long time the standard has been stuck at 300 dots per inch — the eye can not resolve a single do smaller than this , or so the theory goes — but we are now beginning to see 400dpi , 600dpi and 800dpi printers .
12 For a long time the sound of the men chopping wood stayed with us .
13 One might call this ‘ applied phonology ’ ; however , the phonological analysis of different languages raises a great number of difficult and interesting theoretical problems , and for a long time the study of phonology ‘ for its own sake ’ has been regarded as an important area of theoretical linguistics .
14 For a long time the use of probabilistic information in linguistic systems has been frowned upon by the linguistic community .
15 For a long time the hardware available for handwriting recognition was such that the input would take place on a graphics tablet , while the visual feedback appeared on a monitor screen .
16 But Joseph had always been very devoted to any local news and for a long time the talk of the town had been the Cockermouth man — Fletcher Christian 's — Mutiny .
17 He loved life , and for a long time the force was with him .
18 For a long time the peat has been used as fuel by the more isolated farmers , or crofters , in the north-west .
19 Wordsworth continues to watch , but for a long time the figure refuses to move .
20 For a long time the lawyer called almost every day .
21 Probably the original intention was merely to contrast the procedure with that of a public inquiry ( where , of course , the inquiry is in full view of the public ) but for a long time the bogy of officials beavering away in private and then producing a report which damned some poor individual or organisation , without those officials being in any way accountable , was viewed with grave suspicion .
22 Yet for a long time the Cult of Pleasure was respectable and none connected it with the hidden worship of Chaos .
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