Example sentences of "in [det] [noun sg] for a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 2 | They would remain stable in this state for a long time as stars like our sun , burning hydrogen into helium and radiating the resulting energy as heat and light . |
| 3 | Erm so I do n't think that one 's achievable erm I think what this amounts to is that erm there are two cuts that we do n't agree with er there 's a vast on reserves we do n't agree with but we managed to put forward a thousand pounds for education at the same time erm i this does strike me as a budget of a party which it knows has no prospect of any sort of responsibility in this council for a long time to come . |
| 4 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
| 5 | Look wh you 're in this business for a long time , things take an awful long time to happen in this world |