Example sentences of "long [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seizure of Oslo was delayed by only a few hours , just long enough for the king , his ministers and most of parliament — the collective personification of constitutional legitimacy — to evade capture . |
| 2 | Is this long enough for the evolution of an organism as complex as man ? |
| 3 | Can you wait long enough for the organism to perform its duties ? |
| 4 | But they survived long enough for the continents to regroup and to radically alter the atmosphere . |
| 5 | At the last the weather has been descent enough for some of the crags to dry out long enough for the new routers to get busy . |
| 6 | When a person of rank died far from home , and it was known that the funeral would therefore be delayed , embalming allowed the body to remain recognizable long enough for the relatives to make a positive identification on its arrival home . |
| 7 | HALEMA STAYED FOR three days , just long enough for her round figure bobbing up and down the beach to become familiar , long enough for the affection she exuded to be returned tenfold . |
| 8 | ‘ Long enough for the buyer to get a good distance away , ’ the father said , grinning . |
| 9 | Watercolour washes dry by evaporation , so it is essential that the wash remains in a liquid state long enough for the pigment particles to disperse uniformly . |
| 10 | ‘ MIPS and Sparc begat Power , which begat Alpha which will beget something new … none will dominate the open-systems market long enough for the critical mass of software needed for long-term success to develop … the future of RISC microprocessors in the open systems market is dead … |
| 11 | If you wanted to cut from a wide shot to a close-up , you had to cut away to another camera long enough for the lens to be swung round into position and refocussed . |
| 12 | I use a two-gang adjustable valve but this never stops stable long enough for the skimmer to work efficiently . |
| 13 | And you keep the person in that condition long enough for the damaged red cells to be replaced . |
| 14 | Pistol in hand , she paused just long enough for the others to catch up , and handed the goggles to Benny , deciding she 'd probably better play it safe and not risk letting any of the inhabitants of 1915 get an idea of how they worked . |
| 15 | It is no longer possible to either create a toner particle small enough to stick to a single pixel of charge or to maintain that pixel of charge in isolation long enough for the toner , were it there , to stick . |
| 16 | That a large and heterogeneous society like the United States has maintained just two parties for almost its entire history suggests that the job of aggregation has been performed admirably , but it must be remembered that in the United States these interests are really only aggregated once every four years , just long enough for the parties to select their presidential candidates and fight for their election . |
| 17 | Perhaps they had been in the Rorim long enough for the animals to become used to each other . |
| 18 | ( d ) Do n't wave the cards about ; hold the card steadily in front of the class long enough for the students to grasp what situation you are trying to present . |
| 19 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 20 | Surely , she mused , it had n't been raining long enough for the water levels to rise that far , and even though the middle of the week had proved consistently wet she felt confident she would arrive at the cottage long before the possibility became a reality . |
| 21 | My Lords , may I ask my Noble Friend if it would n't be better really to lease the land for a period of time , perhaps long enough for the anguish felt about the cost of the library as it currently stands and when perhaps more optimistic views could be entertained , because the piece of land it 's on is not going to be recoverable once it 's sold . |
| 22 | In an effort to save face , he adopted a casual attitude hoping that his staff would think that he actually meant to keep his hat on all day long just for the heck of it , like gangsters do in the films . |
| 23 | But the time was long past for the final roll-call of his battalion of the People 's Militia , recruited to defend Berlin 's Wilhelmplatz district against the advance of the Red Army . |
| 24 | Nor had he to wait long there for the train running in connection with the sailing of the ‘ Iona ’ steamship from Greenock . |