Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masked by the cold war , it has in practice fulfilled that function for a long time . |
| 2 | Before the programme is finally adopted it has to be referred back to the European Parliament for a second time . |
| 3 | Despite French apprehension , West Germany also became a member of N.A.T.O. , in 1954 , on the understanding that both British and U.S.A. forces would remain on the European continent for an unlimited time . |
| 4 | I stood in front of that fence for a long time , trying to reconstruct the presence of that massive Victorian red sandstone building in which I had spent nearly five sevenths of my life for thirty years . |
| 5 | With the football decider having ended in deadlock Carlow champions Eire Og and O'Donovan Rossa of Cork must meet again this afternoon at the Gaelic Grounds Limerick to decide which side lifts the prestigious trophy for a first time . |
| 6 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 7 | When the anxiety upper limit is reached it will remain at this level for a certain time . |
| 8 | Now he has called on British Rail for a second time to step up safety and end the easy access to the East Coast main line . |
| 9 | I think this is a good principle and we hope to continue it , to some degree for a long time yet . ’ |
| 10 | Erm so I do n't think that one 's achievable erm I think what this amounts to is that erm there are two cuts that we do n't agree with er there 's a vast on reserves we do n't agree with but we managed to put forward a thousand pounds for education at the same time erm i this does strike me as a budget of a party which it knows has no prospect of any sort of responsibility in this council for a long time to come . |
| 11 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 12 | me proper meeting for a long time . |
| 13 | done this job for a long time wo n't you ? |
| 14 | The Sister tried to tell her that all new mothers went through something of this sort for a short time after childbirth ; but Harriet knew , when she fetched Liza and her baby back to Four Winds at the end of the week , that what her daughter was suffering from was not the ordinary ‘ blues ’ which she herself had experienced after Liza was born . |
| 15 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
| 16 | Look wh you 're in this business for a long time , things take an awful long time to happen in this world |
| 17 | ( The first ‘ buses also provided this service for a short time . ) |
| 18 | Charles Henstock sat beside his old friend for a short time , his lips moving in prayer . |
| 19 | Ships did not often come down this coast , and I said to myself , ‘ I 'm going to be on this island for a long time . ’ |
| 20 | Larger fish will , however , put up with a freshwater environment for a short time . |
| 21 | They would remain stable in this state for a long time as stars like our sun , burning hydrogen into helium and radiating the resulting energy as heat and light . |
| 22 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 23 | I 've 'ad this idea for a long time an' if I can get a few customers , we 'll be able ter buy some extra food an' we 'll be able to rent a better 'ouse , with good strong doors not like these rotten ones . ’ |
| 24 | Mm we have n't been through this way for a long time have we ? |
| 25 | On reflection , does my right hon. Friend agree that precious police resources — the figure of £2 million has been mentioned — should not be used on vindictive , Soviet or Israeli-type show trials which are bound to be a travesty of British justice as practised by this country for a long time ? |
| 26 | ‘ She has worked and planned towards this dual-presidency for a long time . ’ |
| 27 | I 've been looking forward to this visit for a long time for that reason . |
| 28 | Will my hon. Friend also note that , unlike the Liberal party , whose individual members have held this view for a long time , what is most interesting is the view held by senior members of the Liberal Democrat party in Scotland who are now calling for separatism ? |
| 29 | I sat staring at the empty screen for a long time , oblivious of everything around me , including Frejji 's cursing as she struggled with interfield links . |
| 30 | Saying that the council had been pressing the Scottish Office for a long time to commit itself to a new bridge , the administration leader , John MacDougall , said while welcoming their decision , it was vital that the views of users would be taken into account . |