Example sentences of "[adj] for a [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 2 | It is best made at the last possible moment , although it can be kept warm for a short time in a bowl set over a pan of hot water . |
| 3 | It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate . |
| 4 | He has grown-up children from that , and is now happily married for a second time with a young son , Jamie . |
| 5 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 6 | I was very unhappy for a long time after that . |
| 7 | " It is a woman you will be then , Sara Hussey , " she whispered to herself , and lay awake for a long time after , watching a narrow strip of moonlight creep slowly across the wall . |
| 8 | This view remained dominant for a long time in sociology , but more recently other sociologists have become reluctant to view people as happy robots , acting out predetermined roles . |
| 9 | As Mittwoch ( 1990 : 125 ) points out , however , the fact that historically make vacillated for a long time between to and zero ( cf. the biblical He maketh me to lie down in green pastures ) calls for a deeper explanation of why the bare infinitive won out . |
| 10 | You need to consider what activities are most suitable for a particular time of day . |
| 11 | The Commission on Analytical Nomenclature of IUPAC has been active for a long time in establishing nomenclature for chromatography . |