Example sentences of "will [verb] a long [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | oh I do n't know , I do n't know , I think it will be a while getting rid of it yes , but I think he might get his price eventually , but it will take a long while to get it , it 's up to him if he wants a quick sale , you know , thirty five yeah I , thirty five thousand I think , as I say taking everything into consideration , I mean , failing three okay I know I did the thirty three so take thirty five , thirty three and a half , oh he ai n't got much to worry about |
| 2 | If you are not , the sheets will take a long time to reassemble if they are accidentally dropped . |
| 3 | The others will take a long time to recover . |
| 4 | ‘ This will take a long time to sink in , ’ said Breeze . |
| 5 | The scars of Bosnia will take a long time to heal . |
| 6 | ‘ The scars will take a long time to heal . ’ |
| 7 | The letter expresses four concerns about the TGAT report : that the assessment proposals require an enormously elaborate and complex system ; that there will be heavy reliance on teachers ' judgements in addition to the nationally prescribed tests ; that the costs will be considerable ; and that the new system will take a long time to implement . |
| 8 | That will take a long time to go I think |
| 9 | But it will take a long time to change the Romanian attitude . |
| 10 | However , the Bill requires those galleries to buy works of art , but it will take a long time to make such acquisitions . |
| 11 | It will take a long time to cover my wall . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said , ‘ this is something that will take a long time to develop . |
| 13 | But the message that bad behaviour no longer brings rewards will take a long time to get through because of its history of being occasionally ( i.e. intermittently ) reinforced . |
| 14 | Even when peace is restored , it will take a long time to get the parks operating normally again . |
| 15 | Now there 's two important things , first thing is your notes will take a long time to get up there maybe up to three months . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , the changes in employment by product sectors which we have reported at Table 5.3 , that is , changes in national ‘ industrial structure ’ , will go a long way to explain the concentration of de-industrialization in regions of the ‘ North ’ , with all its effects on population ( Chapter 4 ) . |
| 17 | When they thud through the letter-box , £150 will go a long way to ease your mind . |
| 18 | The government 's measures to secure more planning permissions for housing development will go a long way to remedy the shortage of building land and so remove the occasion for windfall profits based on scarcity values . |
| 19 | One in six will get a longer form asking 59 questions about such things as housing loans , commuting patterns and job history . |
| 20 | The sedimentologist of the distant future will find a long trough filled with deltaic and fluviatile sediments with clear evidence of their provenance from the north-west and of longitudinal infilling like so many other trough.shaped basins up and down the stratigraphical column . |