Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a [adv] long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It runs out of steam at 60 , which takes an awful long time to achieve and the first hint of a hill its down the box to third . |
| 2 | We had questions at the very beginning of this meeting which seems an awful long time ago now er asking for youth provision in other areas of the county . |
| 3 | Which took a very long time . |
| 4 | For her part , Mrs Thatcher emphasised that the references to future German unity in the declaration was ‘ a very carefully drafted section and we spent a very long time on it ’ . |
| 5 | We waited a very long time in growing unease . |
| 6 | They seem a very long time ago now . |
| 7 | Although viruses have such a simple structure , biologists do not conclude that they are necessarily ‘ primitive ’ ; that is , that they evolved a very long time ago as precursors of more complex organisms . |
| 8 | Then Mabel took charge , leading the way to the Men and Boys ' Outfitting on the first floor , where they took an equally long time comparing styles and prices of under vests , and shirts with detachable collars and cuffs . |
| 9 | They waited a very long time for his answer . |
| 10 | It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost . |
| 11 | It seemed a very long time before he came back . |
| 12 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 13 | If this is the case , the changes of the past 30 years may be the first signs of a return to the more traditional population distribution of pre-industrial Britain , but it must also be borne in mind that it takes a very long time to shift major population patterns , and that the present trends may only be a veneer on an underlying and more permanent structure . |
| 14 | Er , what companies can do , or should seek to do , is of course , see if they can manage round those tensions as well , but it takes a very long time to do that . |
| 15 | So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway . |
| 16 | It takes an awful long time for you to regain that and to feel safe in your own homes . |
| 17 | Beat it for ten minutes , that 's it seems an awfully long time to just stand there and . |
| 18 | He took a very long time over it and in the end just lipped the hole . |
| 19 | He took a terribly long time to clean his hands . |
| 20 | ‘ It took a very long time to reconcile myself with my father . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's easy to edit now electronically , but in those days , where editing was done by looking down a microscope for a metal ink pulse , cutting the tape physically with a guillotine and then joining edges together with sticky tape , it took a very long time and could be very wasteful . ’ |
| 22 | It was still switched through to the secretary 's office , and it took an infuriatingly long time to get a line . |
| 23 | For , I think we 'd probably better keep you going for , how about six da hmm for five days , that 's actually quite a long course for this stuff cos it lasts an awful long time in the body . |
| 24 | He waited a very long time before saying , ‘ Talk , talk , talk , a man ca n't get a word in edgeways . ’ |
| 25 | I waited , cold and tired , in his room for what seemed a very long time . |
| 26 | She talked to me for what seemed a very long time . |
| 27 | We stood there , all four of us , in silence for what seemed a very long time . |
| 28 | She waited what seemed an interminably long time before the same young maid again confronted her . |
| 29 | The effects of hormones may themselves take a very long time to appear . |