Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | My brother in law died and i felt gutted for quite a long time |
| 2 | What with Mrs Clements and the girls also gone for the week , I suppose I was very conscious of the fact that once I departed , Darlington Hall would stand empty for probably the first time this century — perhaps for the first time since the day it was built . |
| 3 | Each such coherent structure is identifiable for only a limited time . |
| 4 | I mean he was married for quite a long time to her apparently . |
| 5 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 6 | At high stepping rates each phase is excited for only a short time interval and the build.up time of the phase current is a significant proportion of the excitation interval . |
| 7 | She was silent for quite a long time . |