Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
| 2 | If we were to add those provisions to the Bill , I fear that we might not fall within the long title of the Bill . |
| 3 | The Basle exchange too , with a turnover only a seventh that of Zurich , may not survive in the longer term if Swiss Bank Corporation , its biggest trader , decides to pull out . |
| 4 | To a certain extent it does not matter how well a product performs if the user takes a strong dislike to it then it will not succeed in the long run . |
| 5 | These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate . |
| 6 | Lions are strong but can not run for a long time . |
| 7 | Sir David Alliance , Coats chairman , said the sales were part of Coats ' continuing policy of disposing of peripheral activities that do not fit in the long term strategy of the group . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
| 9 | Thus we have Macdonald reporting on the " almost unanimous chorus of opinion that women 's work as compositors is so inferior to men 's that it does not pay in the long run " ( the chorus in question being from employers ) But the testimony of individual employers is far from unanimous or even consistent . |
| 10 | One enterprising station-master frequently told all passengers that their trains would not leave for a long time . |
| 11 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 12 | These , he says , were not overcome without a long struggle . |
| 13 | I am not talking about the long run , he wrote . |
| 14 | And it 's easier in the short term not to have In the long term you get more problems . |
| 15 | Anyway , we thought it would be suitably ironic and some sort of justice for having been booted off the Argent tour to cover that song , especially as Argent have not existed for a long time . |
| 16 | But do not be downhearted if your story is not taken up , or indeed ousted at the last moment because a major story comes up : your campaign will not suffer in the long run . |
| 17 | Susie did not reply for a long time . |