Example sentences of "can [verb] a long time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can stay a long time in neutral , ticking over — provided nothing happens . |
| 2 | Erm I do n't think we can spend a long time considering them , it 's just if people bear me whisking through them our brains . |
| 3 | The solvents persist for many years , and can take a long time to be degraded or removed ; the good news is that , unlike some other forms of pollution , spillages of volatile organochlorines are apparently becoming rarer as awareness of the consequences of poor practice increases . |
| 4 | Like a wound in your own flesh , a clean cut heals quickly , but a jagged , ragged , bruised gash can take a long time to heel and is open to infection all that time . |
| 5 | It can take a long time for a woman to rid herself of the automatic assumptions that she has absorbed about home-making , and learn to fashion an approach which suits her and her family . |