Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masked by the cold war , it has in practice fulfilled that function for a long time . |
| 2 | there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while . |
| 3 | I stood in front of that fence for a long time , trying to reconstruct the presence of that massive Victorian red sandstone building in which I had spent nearly five sevenths of my life for thirty years . |
| 4 | Old Frank Buchman , who kept on this course through a long life of battle , used to tell me . |
| 5 | I think this is a good principle and we hope to continue it , to some degree for a long time yet . ’ |
| 6 | Erm so I do n't think that one 's achievable erm I think what this amounts to is that erm there are two cuts that we do n't agree with er there 's a vast on reserves we do n't agree with but we managed to put forward a thousand pounds for education at the same time erm i this does strike me as a budget of a party which it knows has no prospect of any sort of responsibility in this council for a long time to come . |
| 7 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 8 | done this job for a long time wo n't you ? |
| 9 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
| 10 | Look wh you 're in this business for a long time , things take an awful long time to happen in this world |
| 11 | But I say , it should 've been it should 've been all d I mean everybody 's known about this chiller for a long while and it 's as I say , I mean when was here it was costing a thousand pound a time . |
| 12 | Ships did not often come down this coast , and I said to myself , ‘ I 'm going to be on this island for a long time . ’ |
| 13 | Whatever it was , it was another round in a long war that is not over yet |
| 14 | Whichever it was , it was another round in a long war that is not over yet . |
| 15 | He went on ‘ improving ’ this poem over a long period of years so that the text usually printed shows many alterations from the original . |
| 16 | And needless to say we will never release another CD with a long box . ’ |
| 17 | They would remain stable in this state for a long time as stars like our sun , burning hydrogen into helium and radiating the resulting energy as heat and light . |
| 18 | I 've 'ad this idea for a long time an' if I can get a few customers , we 'll be able ter buy some extra food an' we 'll be able to rent a better 'ouse , with good strong doors not like these rotten ones . ’ |
| 19 | Mm we have n't been through this way for a long time have we ? |
| 20 | On reflection , does my right hon. Friend agree that precious police resources — the figure of £2 million has been mentioned — should not be used on vindictive , Soviet or Israeli-type show trials which are bound to be a travesty of British justice as practised by this country for a long time ? |
| 21 | ‘ She has worked and planned towards this dual-presidency for a long time . ’ |
| 22 | I 've been looking forward to this visit for a long time for that reason . |
| 23 | Will my hon. Friend also note that , unlike the Liberal party , whose individual members have held this view for a long time , what is most interesting is the view held by senior members of the Liberal Democrat party in Scotland who are now calling for separatism ? |
| 24 | It 's another stage in a long line of streamlining with scant regard to customers ’ needs . ’ |
| 25 | She kept trying to tell herself that his was just another face in a long line of faces , but the nearness of him was agonising , and she was forced to face up to a bitter realisation . |
| 26 | So we 've had that law for a long time . |
| 27 | Tamayo 's insistence on using new materials to construct his prints is very much part of a long tradition in modern art . |
| 28 | ‘ I think that I have n't played a Test for England because I 've carried too much weight for a long time , ’ Carrick said . |
| 29 | She had not had so much fun for a long time , since before she buried Anthony . |
| 30 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |