Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm you know I know that was one difficulty , that people had a long time to wait for repairs . |
| 2 | They live modestly on income from securities that Edhi bought a long time ago . |
| 3 | The gizzard-stone treatment meant that food took a long time to digest . |
| 4 | She agrees with Gnome Pfeiffer ( coauthor of The Experience of Infertility , Virago ) that feminists took a long time to put infertility on the political agenda , and she suggests that this is partly due to attitudes toward motherhood . |
| 5 | The climatic extremes of the far north mean that forests take a long time to regenerate . |
| 6 | The engine box had a centre ‘ handle ’ and Ian took a long time sighting his chimney by this . |
| 7 | Cardiff was , of course , built on mud flats , and nature takes a long time to change . |
| 8 | He and Claudia spent a long time talking to the police and to the accused man . |
| 9 | Oh it 's obvious that safety 's involved , I think that er it 's also er road use because er if people take a long time er going forwards and back trying to get into a space to park because they do n't have the basic skills to enable them to do it , then it 's frustrating for other motorists , and obviously accidents can be caused . |
| 10 | The box and pyrotechnics take a long time to set up , so we ca n't rehearse and have to hope it will be all right on the night . |
| 11 | We have asked to do so , but changes take a long time to come into effect . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've told yer plenty of times , me an' Tommy finished a long time ago . |
| 13 | The four-cylinder engine was more reliable in 1957 , but BRM took a long time to realise that the P25 's air strut suspension — carried over from the V16 — was the cause of its savage oversteer . |