Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] for a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 2 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 3 | All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time . |
| 4 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 5 | Anyone who is stupid enough to try and derail a train should be locked away for a long time . |