Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun] for a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah it 's been for sale for a long time . |
| 2 | If you 're off work for a long time , Abbey 's going to pay the premiums for you , until you get well again . |
| 3 | Anyway erm the chap the first speaker was from Silent Night Bedding and they 're in dispute for a long time . |
| 4 | Er and I mean er a lot of that 's perhaps the release of stress , so that you know you 've been under pressure for a long time and then you , you take that away , and it may actually be detrimental to but er it does n't , obviously the figures are a little bit odd . |
| 5 | A discrete block of land may have been in existence for a long time before it was first described in a written document . |
| 6 | The first 4 of these have been in existence for a long time . |
| 7 | We 've been in love for a long time — well , I have anyway . ’ |
| 8 | The fittings here also looked as if they had been in service for a long time — probably salvaged from a demolition site . |
| 9 | She has n't been in Italy for a long time . |
| 10 | Many tournaments ( as you emphasised ) , have been in place for a long time and often with the same people running them for decades . |
| 11 | Privately , senior party members claim women do not put themselves forward , are not up to the job and stress that most male MPs have been in place for a long time . |
| 12 | When releasing barn owls that have been in captivity for a long time , we keep them confined to the barn until we 're sure that they are going to adapt happily to their new surrounding . ( ) |
| 13 | Schemes of the same kind were drawn up for the forests of Chute , Pickering and Knaresborough , and in the soke of Somersham within the forest of Huntingdon , which the Attorney-General reported ‘ had not been in use for a long time past . |
| 14 | So it 's a pleasure really , I think it 's true , I think there are very many people who undermine and er undervalue the contribution made by people who have been in politics for a long time and I think what they also forget is the level of commitment that these people have put in over many many years . |
| 15 | Thomas 's mind has been in turmoil for a long time since that rejection . |
| 16 | ‘ I daresay this knavish lot will be in power for a long time yet . |
| 17 | Your microhabitat may be without occupants for a long time , but usually some animals will reach it in the end . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been at ITN for a long time and come from a traditional news background . |
| 19 | He was in hospital for a long time with the doctors far from optimistic that he would recover . |
| 20 | There was a car crash , she died , he was in hospital for a long time and when he came out everything had changed . |