Example sentences of "is [verb] for [art] long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 " I love foliage and I think you have to rely a lot on that in small gardens because you do n't have room to leave dormant areas where nothing is happening for a long period , " she says .
2 The official definition of long-term unemployment is more than twelve months without work , although employment training , which is designed for the long term unemployed , requires entrants to have been on the register for more than six months .
3 Also in the crypt is the Duomo treasury , a pay-to-enter collection that is closed for a long period at lunch .
4 One of the men in the physiology department of the university here is taking them tomorrow as he is to stay with for a week , who is due home c. 13th and then the judge in whose house I so often stay in London IS coming for a long weekend c. 19th and then I have two or three B&B bods for Festival , giving up our bedroom ( UGH ) .
5 As PC Lesley Harrison lies fighting for her life in hospital the Government should take immediate steps to ensure that anybody who attacks a member of any of the security services is imprisoned for a long time .
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