Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] for [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 " I love foliage and I think you have to rely a lot on that in small gardens because you do n't have room to leave dormant areas where nothing is happening for a long period , " she says .
32 One of the men in the physiology department of the university here is taking them tomorrow as he is to stay with for a week , who is due home c. 13th and then the judge in whose house I so often stay in London IS coming for a long weekend c. 19th and then I have two or three B&B bods for Festival , giving up our bedroom ( UGH ) .
33 Has he been working for a long time ?
34 you know , that G P's that 's been practising for a long number of years you know er , elderly G P's are probably not as up-to-date on these kind of things as they should be .
35 Yeah but what I 'm saying is erm the orange disk was flashing for a long while before the buzzer
36 I was relaxing for a long time .
37 It showed the leader board and then switched to the seventh where Krantz was preparing for a long approach putt down the kidney-shaped green .
38 He was screaming for a long time before he fell , and we could hear that he was running as he screamed .
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