Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] very long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the first floor is a sort of piano nobile , a recent and foreign innovation which did not catch on for very long in smaller English country houses . |
| 2 | Sure enough before very long a show record was broken . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got a nasty feeling he may need to jack up interest rates further , but possibly not for very long . ’ |
| 4 | The deaf in Exeter occupied temporary premises for a few weeks , before settling into another building near the centre of the town , but not for very long . |
| 5 | The particle of matter is instantly whipped towards the black hole by the huge gravitational tug ; the antiparticle is simultaneously repelled , and zips off to become a part of our Universe — although probably not for very long , because it will annihilate itself as soon as it encounters another matter particle . |
| 6 | Perhaps she would think of him one day with less ill-will than now , but not for very long at a time ; not obsessively , not like this . |
| 7 | Hopefully you wo n't have to stay here for very long anyway . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I have n't been here for very long . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , she was n't around for very long . |
| 10 | He will be here before very long . |
| 11 | People lived and died there ; they did not grow old there , because no one could live for very long in the Robemaker 's hands . |
| 12 | ‘ They wo n't keep him there for very long , ’ Schellenberg said . |
| 13 | The body could not survive healthily for very long on a diet composed of any one type of food . |
| 14 | Anne left Germany in the expectation of seeing her family again before very long . |
| 15 | You will be together again before very long — and then who knows ! ’ |
| 16 | In the end the one certainty is that the fox hunting debate will be aired in the council chamber again before very long |
| 17 | It 's easy to get lost but never for very long . |