Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] long [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard had been rebuilding and strengthening Clairvaux and his motives for doing so have long puzzled historians , since it was a step which could be interpreted as an infringement of his elder brother 's rights . |
| 2 | Do not spend long making your decision . |
| 3 | Prof Spitz said he believed that the twins could not have long survived together . |
| 4 | Having a will professionally drawn up is not a terrible ordeal and it need not take long to explain your wishes . |
| 5 | But it does not take long to decide that the experiment is being conducted with skill , and that the pursuits have at least a little in common . |
| 6 | This idea may not be suitable for a real beginner , but if anyone is really enthusiastic about cake decorating it should not take long to acquire the necessary skills , enabling them to create some lovely and different effects . |
| 7 | It does not take long to reach negligible proportions . |
| 8 | It did not take long to realise that what really worried Mrs Baran was Franziska 's relationship with her husband , although : ‘ … from the way in which Mr Baran talked about Franzi I did not at all get the impression that there is any reason for Mrs Baran to be jealous ’ . |
| 9 | Before we confront their beliefs we need to know something of their setting , but this will not take long to recount ; I shall adopt the anthropologist 's familiar if sometimes confusing practice of writing in the ‘ ethnographic present ’ tense . |
| 10 | It did not take long to see the extension of the concept . |
| 11 | Still , it did not take long to sell , and as soon as people started to look over it , she told her family . |
| 12 | No lunch is provided and it does not take long to eat what little they bring — a bit of salad , some bread and maybe a hard-boiled egg . |
| 13 | As Fabia had suspected , the dog Azor did not take long to find . |
| 14 | It does not take long to get used to plotting points on screen with the mouse , so creating simple straight line shapes soon becomes quite easy . |
| 15 | I did not live far from the school so it did not take long to get there . |
| 16 | I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard , of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention , but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament , nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said . |
| 17 | It did not take long to fetch the horses round . |
| 18 | The broadly based Hadrianic Greek revival thus proved long lasting , and exerted a profound influence on the art of later antiquity . |
| 19 | NADIA KARMALI , a 12-year-old exchange student from British Columbia , has not taken long to impress her teachers and fellow pupils at St Mary 's School , Melrose . |
| 20 | I was quite sick on the train before we got to Euston , and have not liked long train journeys since . |
| 21 | There is one pointed , slightly angular , apical papilla flanked on each side by 3 to 4 irregularly arranged long pointed oral papillae , some of which are slightly flattened . |
| 22 | A Highland pony could carry the average six foot man easily , but he would still look long legged on him even allowing for these ponies ' generous girths . |
| 23 | But it also has long supported the idea that the small company audit should go . |
| 24 | I also had long haul flights in mind . ’ |
| 25 | They often took long walks together , how ever , marching through the streets of London in companionable silence . |
| 26 | Our did n't stay long did he ? |
| 27 | I do n't believe that the method of selling cars with huge discounts that has been going on in the US for some time is good for the companies , and I also do n't think long term it 's good for the industrial base of the country and therefore ultimately for the customer . |
| 28 | That 's when I started trying to get you back ; I knew I had n't got long to do it . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It had n't got long to go , this ox , ’ she commented . |
| 30 | He 's got something malignant , cancer , and he has n't got long to live anyway . ’ |