Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] long time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 85% of the woodland area is dominated by mature trees , indicating that grazing has been heavy enough for a long time to Prevent sapling recruitment . |
| 2 | CHARLES and Diana will be together for a long time to come . |
| 3 | Not too long ago , Colonel and a new present commander of the Three-Ninetieth Strategic Missile Wing agreed to establish a memorial , a heritage programme between the Bomb Group veterans and the Strategic Missile Wing people erm hopefully for a long time to come . |
| 4 | It means so much to the supporters in the Oxford area , it means so much to the club , I think you 've really got to be up here for a long time to realise just how much it does mean to everybody in this area . |
| 5 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 6 | She sat there for a long time rocking backwards and forwards and giving herself up to howling , letting her gasps for breath shake her to pieces and leave her shuddering . |
| 7 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
| 8 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 9 | they made the area around the reactor a non living area , the problem is of course people that have lived there for a long time do n't want to move and so over |
| 10 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 11 | Three times in a row he has been champion jockey but his achievement in 1992 , re-wrote the record books and wo n't be equalled by anyone else for a long time to come , if ever . |