Example sentences of "for a [adj] time [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor . |
| 2 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
| 3 | Exposed for a long time to moist , saturated , air timber might settle down to a moisture content of 22 per cent or 23 per cent . |
| 4 | Only a small minority of the wines are kept for a long time as vintage wines . |
| 5 | Of course , nationalism is not all simple illusion , for real material differences do exist and have existed for a long time between different countries . |
| 6 | When he 'd gone I lay and thought for a long time about poor young Mr Vickers , and of what I should have told Doone , and had n't . |
| 7 | Held back for a long time by wild hitting , she has accepted in the last 12 months that there are occasions when she must suppress the urge to attack everything flat out . |
| 8 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 9 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 10 | Educated at Eton and then sent to Europe to improve himself , he worked for a short time in various jobs in ‘ the city ’ before becoming an ADC to the Governor of Australia . |