Example sentences of "not have long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
| 2 | A packed City Hall did not have long to wait as Lewis roared in with several more stinging rights and left hooks and when Garber was floored for the second time he had no chance of beating the count . |
| 3 | They did not have long to wait . |
| 4 | EXPATRIATES in Hong Kong , homesick for real fish and chips do not have long to wait . |
| 5 | She did not have long to wait . |
| 6 | She did not have long to wait . |
| 7 | A factor to be considered was that the leases were short term and therefore often did not have long to run by the year end ; this reduced the difference between a valuation with vacant possession and one with a tenant in occupation . |
| 8 | Sadly , he did not have long to bask in the glory of that epic flight , he was killed while delivering a Vickers Viking in France . |
| 9 | It appears that we may not have long to go . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , however , he would not have long to play before he was turned to spaghetti . ’ |
| 11 | In the south , it was to be a different story and with Vietminh claims recognized neither by the British/Indian forces who arrived first nor by the French who followed not long after , and with Japanese forces for the most part under much tighter control , the reassertion of French sovereignty , at least in so far as this might be done through the possession of Saigon , did not have long to wait . |
| 12 | We did not have long to wait . |
| 13 | She says at her age , she might not have long to enjoy it . |
| 14 | He did not have long to wait for his answer . |
| 15 | She did not have long to brood because Harbury began talking to her about the MacQuillan case . |
| 16 | To our pleasant surprise we did not have long to wait before hearing that my application for transfer to Felixstowe had been successful . |
| 17 | ( Unfortunately , however , he would not have long to play before he was turned to spaghetti . |
| 18 | He will not have long to wait for another diet of his own words . |
| 19 | If something like that did not happen soon , Robert thought , she might well not have long to live . |
| 20 | He did not have long to wait , though it seemed an age to him . |
| 21 | ‘ I am sorry we not have longer time to know each other , but I am having to rush . |
| 22 | Margarita Georgiou brought her wedding day forward after cancer victim Nick was told by doctors he did n't have long to live . |
| 23 | I went home feeling miserable and ashamed for being such a fool but I did n't have long to indulge my self-pity , for when I entered our house I found my brother Jack and Mum quarrelling loudly . |
| 24 | I did n't have long to wait for my first recovery , because the next day a kid arrived at the house carrying the ghastly yellow-coated corpse of a starling . |
| 25 | Helmut Bradl has yet to win his first GP but he surely does n't have long to wait . |
| 26 | She would n't have long to wait . |
| 27 | He did n't have long to wait because Newley was a man of habit and arrived at the office at much the same time , day after day . |
| 28 | If I did n't have long hair , everyone would think I was a boy . |
| 29 | She did n't have long to wait for illumination as he moved swiftly to front her , grabbing her roughly by the shoulders , holding her firmly as if he suspected she was about to take flight . |
| 30 | We did n't have long to wait . |