Example sentences of "not [vb pp] for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
| 2 | Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time . |
| 3 | These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
| 5 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 6 | 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 . |