Example sentences of "[vb infin] for [art] [adv] [adj] time " 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 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 3 | They did n't speak for a very long time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In other words , they have been allowed to grow and multiply for a sufficiently long time to produce large numbers of cells . |
| 6 | What I will tell you , and I will tell for the very first time , is that I personally dealt with people whose future may well have been considered under the terms of the AMO . |
| 7 | Laboratory experiments can only last for a relatively short time , and have to be held within the confines of the laboratory . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A good quality carpet should last for a very long time . |