Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [verb] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another super-domestique of great experience is Sean Yates from Sussex , who has won a long time trial stage in the tour . |
| 2 | ‘ She has waited a long time for rest . |
| 3 | ‘ For one who intends to stay a long time with us , Englishman , you know little of us . |
| 4 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |
| 5 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
| 6 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 7 | ‘ It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added . |
| 8 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
| 9 | It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived . |
| 10 | It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement . |
| 11 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 12 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 13 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 14 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |
| 15 | I know he 's had a long time out with injury but he must be all right now or he would n't be playing . ’ |