Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [art] [adv] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | If you , if you wait for a report from a salesman , you can wait for a very long time , the only piece of paper he really likes filling in is called an expense sheet . |
2 | They did n't speak for a very long time . |
3 | The inflation in the early stages of the universe , which the no boundary proposal predicts , means that the universe must be expanding at very close to the critical rate at which it would just avoid recollapse , and so will not recollapse for a very long time . |
4 | In other words , they have been allowed to grow and multiply for a sufficiently long time to produce large numbers of cells . |
5 | The return trek can seem like a very long haul but all the effort seems well worthwhile by the time you 're comfortably sitting in the bar at the Sligachan Hotel cradling your glass of single malt . |
6 | ‘ It might seem like an awful long time to be working on a debut album , but we 're were n't going to be rushed , ’ says Dermot . |
7 | And the reverberations of that shared theory may last for a very long time , long after the institution which was its natural concomitant in day-to-day social practices has gone . |
8 | A good quality carpet should last for a very long time . |