Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 85% of the woodland area is dominated by mature trees , indicating that grazing has been heavy enough for a long time to Prevent sapling recruitment . |
| 2 | It is bad enough to fail one 's driving test once ; to do so for a second time reinforces the sense of hopelessness in the learner 's mind — he now has twice as many failures to build upon — so that he uses his ability to visualize in an even more negative fashion . |
| 3 | CHARLES and Diana will be together for a long time to come . |
| 4 | Before very long on a planetary time scale the surface temperatures would reach Cytherean values . |
| 5 | Not for a long time had Vi felt so uncomfortable . |
| 6 | Not too long ago , Colonel and a new present commander of the Three-Ninetieth Strategic Missile Wing agreed to establish a memorial , a heritage programme between the Bomb Group veterans and the Strategic Missile Wing people erm hopefully for a long time to come . |
| 7 | It means so much to the supporters in the Oxford area , it means so much to the club , I think you 've really got to be up here for a long time to realise just how much it does mean to everybody in this area . |
| 8 | Of Records , Laurie Bruce writes : ‘ Many people are giving up records for cassettes or compact discs – a great mistake as records will be around for a long time to come . |
| 9 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 10 | She sat there for a long time rocking backwards and forwards and giving herself up to howling , letting her gasps for breath shake her to pieces and leave her shuddering . |
| 11 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
| 12 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 13 | they made the area around the reactor a non living area , the problem is of course people that have lived there for a long time do n't want to move and so over |
| 14 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 15 | Not only that ; that 's where they get their instructions , because sometimes some of them go out again for a second time to take part in another incident . |
| 16 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 17 | Three times in a row he has been champion jockey but his achievement in 1992 , re-wrote the record books and wo n't be equalled by anyone else for a long time to come , if ever . |
| 18 | The sweater is very simple and yet with a little time spent you can produce a complex looking garment . |