Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This is the highest quality educational package I have seen in a long time and is well worth registering . |
| 32 | This has been one of the best Friday debates that I have attended for a long time . |
| 33 | We have argued for a long time that there is a peripheral argument that in the strategic interests of the nation we should be concerned about the coal industry . |
| 34 | We have accepted for a long time that traumatic stress incidents are the basis of an industrial injury claim . |
| 35 | ‘ I have felt for a long time that the only way this issue was going to be resolved was to have it fixed on a political level — that it would n't just fade away . |
| 36 | But the Premier League clubs did come up with two positive measures in what Parry described as ‘ the most constructive meeting we have had for a long time . ’ |
| 37 | It was the best experience I have had for a long time . ’ |
| 38 | In my case , and I am sure I am not alone in this , I can picture in my mind 's eye every summit I have reached in a long life without confusion of identity . |
| 39 | ‘ Our side against Huddersfield will be the most experienced we have fielded for a long time . |
| 40 | That shared culture has gone , though its traces have persisted for a long time , at least among those unworldly older academics who assume that students of English will have read the whole of Shakespeare in the sixth form , or that they can readily identify classical or biblical references . |
| 41 | Your friends usually are the one you have known for a long period of time , for example at work or at university . |
| 42 | You do n't expect that from people you have known for a long time . |
| 43 | We have known for a long time that there is no one right way to analyze a proposed capital investment . |
| 44 | Managers have known for a long time that demographics matter , but they have always believed that population statistics change slowly . |
| 45 | SPAIN 'S five years in the European Community have seemed like a long honeymoon . |
| 46 | Residents have campaigned for a long time for a speed restriction and traffic calming in Skerne Park , which has a high accident rate . |
| 47 | Some young people in care have voiced for a long time their preference for residential rather than fostering care ( Page and Clark , 1977 ) . |
| 48 | In calling for a vote on European union , TODAY is speaking up for what most of us have wanted for a long time . |
| 49 | Archbishop Eames said : ‘ I have believed for a long time there is a crying need for the Churches to examine the problem of sectarianism in depth . |
| 50 | Besides , the variations in the pattern and emphasis of such courses seem to have grown up largely pragmatically , as a function of the organizational ‘ discretion ’ that both institutions and academics have in responding to the needs , pressures and priorities they have perceived over a long period of time . |
| 51 | As we all know , not only in London but in many of our big cities , there are areas of great depression — neglected areas where there are thousands of people out of work — and those areas have existed for a long time . |
| 52 | I have lived through a long nightmare and am shattered by what was done to me . |
| 53 | If we find that magnets attached to cats will upset their ability to find their way home , then we are beginning , very dimly , to understand the amazing homing abilities that the animals have evolved over a long period of time . |
| 54 | This is a pity because his book was one of the most interesting textbooks I have read for a long time . |