Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] for a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time . |
| 2 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time , ’ he told the ever-comforting Jones , ‘ and shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time and I shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 4 | St Peter walked along silently for a long distance . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was a leafy place ; professional people , merchants , senior civil servants had lived around here for a long time . |
| 7 | Sometimes the virus stays there quietly for a long time and the person stays well . |
| 8 | They looked as if they had been dressed in a hurry and not very suitably for a long walk on the headland , even in a warm autumn . |
| 9 | Alice was understandably puzzled , saying , ‘ Well in our country you 'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we 've been doing . ’ |