Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You must have been asleep for a very long time , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Chesarynth thought about that for a very long time . |
| 3 | as to which of those distinguished people should be dispensed with , but nevertheless it might be the advantage of everybody if the numbers of the cabinet were reduced to sixteen , I personally thought that for a very long time . |
| 4 | Having just painfully disentangled herself from one relationship , she had no intention of getting involved in another for a very long time . |
| 5 | When you spread work like this over a very long period you are able to look into yourself , and see yourself in a great work of art . |
| 6 | I would n't say there was much between the two teams apart from the first half here this afternoon when United , I have n't seen United dominate a side so much for a very long time , and really , I mean you were here Peter , three or four nil at half time would not have been a bad reflection on United 's performance in any way at all . |
| 7 | ‘ Doses would remain large for a very long time … |
| 8 | If you take these for a very long time you get a beard and a deep voice , but as I only needed a month 's supply I escaped such horrors . |
| 9 | All you need to do is to be sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time and and his mates will turn around and throw up their hands and shak and and turn somersaults . |
| 10 | People who have intelligence and a conscience wrestle with these problems and we 've come to a conclusion which is as good a deal as we think we can get , with the people of the area and with the Labour party and I think he said that if people in this authority are sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time then people will change their minds . |
| 11 | Most people thinks that 's a very long way off , but in the case of something like health then erm we certainly agree health is good for a very long way . |
| 12 | With brightness masking , subjects report that although the target appeared to be present for a reasonably long period it was too vaguely defined — its contrast was too low for it to be identifiable . |
| 13 | However , since an Enforcement Notice has to be confirmed by the Secretary of State who is required to have a hearing , and since compensation is payable for any loss arising out of a Stop Notice , if the notice is quashed because the development is authorised or does not require planning permission , unauthorised development can , and does , go on unpenalised for a very long time . |
| 14 | It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time , perhaps even since it had been laid to rest . |
| 15 | ‘ When you 've been very independent for a very long time , to depend on somebody else is n't easy , I find . |
| 16 | This may be reasonably safe with a very long tow rope , but if there is only a shorter length of rope available the glider may overrun and smash into the back of the car , causing hundreds of pounds ' worth of damage to the glider . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's going to stay number one for a very long time , ’ says Michael Ellis of the influential American music magazine Billboard . |
| 18 | If such businesses are independent and directly answerable to the stock market , any bad investment decisions would only become apparent after a very long time . |
| 19 | It 's very satisfying after a very long investigation . |
| 20 | It was common for the storage building to be accompanied by a pair of kilns and a complete range of such structures might be erected adjacent to a very long storage building on a site where the cultivation of hops was undertaken intensively ( eg , at the hop farm of a brewery . ) |
| 21 | They also tend to remain positive for a very long time , if not indefinitely , unless the infection has been treated in the very early stages . |