Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope to stay here for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | The watching Masai begin to walk away after a long , contemplative moment . |
| 3 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 4 | That would be a mistake : this is one of the most satisfying and interesting CDs I have come across in a long while . |
| 5 | I have said enough about the long run already , where there will be no more Reykjavik and no more big glass and not even any more lovers . |
| 6 | Many students of engineering and other professional or semi-professional fields were in the past part-time not full-time , and sandwich courses have grown out of a long tradition of first night-school , then day release and then block release — a pattern associated in the post-war period mainly with the non-university sector . |
| 7 | Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’ |
| 8 | Both have gone on for a long time . |
| 9 | I mean there , there are a lot of people , of people in who have lived here for a long time , and lived here ever since they were born . |
| 10 | The ambassador reported that " The Emperor is monitoring the serious political illness which has gripped all countries , and believes his empire very far from being immune from infection " ; Nicholas was now of the opinion that " Highly reprehensible principles have been disseminated among young people who completed their university courses around three years ago , among people who have lived abroad for a long time , and also among teachers , professors , writers and journalists . |
| 11 | 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 |