Example sentences of "[be] [adv] for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | If I was outside , she said she could telephone me every day for nothing , if I gave her the number of a phone box and arranged to be there for a certain time … |
| 32 | Then she said , quietly , ‘ Yes , although I have n't been here for a long time . |
| 33 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 34 | The hon. Gentleman must forgive me : I want to be fair to other hon. Members who have been here for a long time . |
| 35 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 36 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 37 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 38 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 39 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 40 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 41 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 42 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 43 | Is this a new disease , something we 've discovered recently , or has it been around for a long time ? |
| 44 | ‘ We are here for a good time , it is n't a crusade , but we want to win , ’ said Masters champion Couples . |
| 45 | And Couples warned : ‘ We are here for a good time , but we want to win . |
| 46 | She felt as if she were not really there , as if she had not really been there for a long time . |
| 47 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 48 | Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't . |
| 49 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 50 | " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin . |
| 51 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |
| 52 | It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission . |
| 53 | ‘ We were together for a long time but we grew apart and we have both been working hard . ’ |
| 54 | LONG ago , on dark nights when storms lashed the treacherous coastline , wreckers knew they were in for a busy time . |
| 55 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 56 | Er what sort of relationship did you have with with the men , did you er particularly thinking that you you were still for a long time after that , the the branch secretary of the union as well you know . |
| 57 | ‘ No point , our lights were out for a long time , they 'd just use that as an excuse . |
| 58 | ‘ We 've been apart for a long time . |
| 59 | Er making yourself feel good even if it 's only for a short time . |
| 60 | There are fears that Wall Street , which this week hit a peak , is in for a torrid time in the next few weeks . |