Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] [art] long time " in BNC.
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1 | No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time . |
2 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
3 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
4 | So Eddie knows the real Delia Forbes has gone away and wo n't be back for a long time … but so what ? ’ |
5 | It will be around for a long time . |
6 | She 'll be around for a long time yet . ’ |
7 | REGARDLESS of how much longer Norman Lamont survives at No 11 , his Budget will be around for a long time . |
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 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
10 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
11 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
12 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Is this a new disease , something we 've discovered recently , or has it been around for a long time ? |
18 | In looking for the answers , let us begin with those citizens who have been around for the longest time — the elderly and those in later middle age . |
19 | ‘ No point , our lights were out for a long time , they 'd just use that as an excuse . |
20 | that may mean that we meet a demoralized norwich team away on saturday — or — that they got boosted by their fine performance — ekoku was back after a long time injury for norwich . |
21 | For our purposes what matters is that RNA , or something like it , was around for a long time before it became self-replicating . |