Example sentences of "[pron] can [verb] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is much easier to improve ‘ performance ’ on such measures by decreasing the denominator than by increasing the numerator , which can take a long time , involves risk and has to be discounted for taxation . |
| 2 | You can stay a long time in neutral , ticking over — provided nothing happens . |
| 3 | Erm I do n't think we can spend a long time considering them , it 's just if people bear me whisking through them our brains . |
| 4 | It is a characteristic of a task requiring vigilance that it can span a long time , minutes or hours or even a whole work-shift . |
| 5 | The trouble has been , however , that with the longer construction periods for nuclear stations and the further period before their cheaper running costs will allegedly show up , it can take a long time to see which way the scales really tip . |
| 6 | It can take a long time for a woman to rid herself of the automatic assumptions that she has absorbed about home-making , and learn to fashion an approach which suits her and her family . |
| 7 | The flight action is superb although it can take a long time to get to grips with all the features of the program . |
| 8 | But it also makes everything quite difficult to fully understand as it can take a long time to see what is really being said . |