Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'll wait a very long time to do that , ’ he gritted . |
| 2 | You know , as we sit back and just wait for God to bless us we 'll wait an awful long time . |
| 3 | Much of the training was carried out in colleges and the 8-hour course , plus travel , could make a particularly long day for those attending . |
| 4 | You could spend a very long time , trying to understand that woman . " |
| 5 | Yes , I think I mean if one goes into corruption one could spend an awful long time . |
| 6 | Gold and silver coins tended to be used as bullion and their metal value was an important consideration in a time of inflation , but a base metal coin could have a very long life . |
| 7 | This may mean that a file which operates well under normal conditions , i.e. many home records being accessed but few synonyms , may take a relatively long time to process sequentially . |
| 8 | However desirable this might be , in a highly complex and differentiated society such as ours this undertaking would need a very long time given our present methods , resources and interests . |
| 9 | It would take a very long time to implement and would be very costly . |
| 10 | Also , if , by the end of the day , he had not left the house without her permission , she would read an extra long story to him . |
| 11 | I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money . |
| 12 | The Gaullist conception of state broadcasting would prove an unconscionably long time in dying-in May 1986 Communications Minister Léotard still referred to the need to reduce state control — ‘ la desétatisation de l'audiovisuel ’ . |
| 13 | CANBERRA may seem an awful long way from exchanges on the floor of the House of Commons over the European Monetary System . |
| 14 | We can assume that in a normal working session a lexicographer will spend a relatively long time thinking as opposed to manipulating text . |
| 15 | This assumes that the bathroom is next to or above the kitchen ( as is usually the case ) ; if running hot water to another room ( a bedroom , say ) will create a very long pipe run , it might be simpler to install a separate instantaneous or small storage heater . |
| 16 | A basic foodstuff , such as the common loaf of bread or a packet of ground coffee , will have a relatively long life cycle . |
| 17 | ‘ It will take a very long time before we can fully cooperate ’ , said Czech-born Thomas Messer . |
| 18 | Of course , that will take a very long time indeed . |
| 19 | The move towards economic sanctions is necessary , unfortunately , but sanctions will take a very long time to work . |
| 20 | New trees are being planted but it will take a very long time to repair the damage . |
| 21 | Litigation , on the other hand , can take a very long time . |
| 22 | However , this can take a very long time to accomplish — some flyers never manage it — and will bring you closer and closer to the next stage to be conquered — the nose-in hover . |
| 23 | These can go a very long way to mollifying those individuals whose journeys are lengthened by traffic-affecting measures . |