Example sentences of "be [verb] a long time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our fans have been waiting a long time for a game like Sunday 's . |
| 2 | I have been waiting a long time for a British magazine to offer intelligent coverage of mainstream sport in a way that Sports Illustrated , among others in America , seems to do effortlessly . |
| 3 | She has been waiting a long time for your kiss . ’ |
| 4 | I want music to frighten me like T Rex or Johnny Rotten : I 'll be waiting a long time for that in Dublin . ’ |
| 5 | Muldoon seemed to be taking a long time over his coffee . |
| 6 | What is more , much of government expenditure is committed a long time in advance and can not easily be cut . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's taken a long time for the guilt to surface . ’ |
| 8 | She had done another paragraph before it occurred to her that he was taking a long time in Georgina 's office . |