Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or a pregnant girl may wait too long to be able to have one legally , or may be afraid of what her family will say . |
| 2 | You 'll spend quite long periods of time working entirely alone , but study need not be an unsociable , let alone an anti-social , process . |
| 3 | Production of the maximum possible yield might , for example , require too high a consumption of an expensive starting material or the process might take too long and thus prove uneconomic . |
| 4 | It 'll take that long to bring him round . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't think you 'll take very long on the twelves I think you 'll have that sorted out pretty quickly . |
| 6 | A pity it 'll take so long to check . |
| 7 | I 'll pull that long hair of yours if you do n't obey me at once ! ’ |
| 8 | try not to put things off too much as plans may take far longer to arrange and involve more red tape than you might think . |
| 9 | This , in reality , may mean very long delays before an instrument is installed , if at all . |
| 10 | A larger , more general system would need considerably longer stretches of the utterance , and/or considerably more complex top-down information . |
| 11 | It was a long document ( as one speaker remarked , there was a danger it would grow so long that no one would read it ) , but after only two days of discussion the fathers voted overwhelmingly to accept the draft as the basis for the final document and went on to debate it section by section . |
| 12 | It would take that long for them to get so far apart . ’ |
| 13 | I would take too long and use too much paper , but it was fantastic ! |
| 14 | ‘ I thought it would take too long to do but it was easier than the problems of printing . ’ |
| 15 | Mr De Klerk justified his decision on the curious grounds that an inquiry would take too long and would create ‘ a climate of suspicion and distrust ’ which ‘ the country can ill afford at this stage in its history ’ . |
| 16 | it would take too long to go through the entire programme , which is studded with jewels , but if you can dip into it , try the two Passacaglias ( Kerll 's and Muffat 's , in D minor and G minor respectively ) , the deep and moving Allemande which opens Froberger 's Suite No. 20 ( it bears the inscription , in French , ‘ Meditation on my future death , to be played slowly and discreetly ’ ) , or his Fantasia No. 2 , which follows it here ; try too Buxtehude 's extraordinary Choral Suite Auf meinem lieben Gott ; or Weckmann 's two Toccatas … |
| 17 | The reason why this happens would take too long to explain here , but it is not a fault in the program as you might be tempted to think ! |
| 18 | It would take too long and she would n't understand ; besides , she had phoned at a bad moment — Anne was obviously in a hurry to go out . |
| 19 | An MX on rails is not really a solution anyway , because it would take too long to load the missiles on to trains in case ofa surprise attack . |
| 20 | It would take too long to get the computer up and do it for you , but erm you can take that away with you if , if you like , that just makes the same points I 've been making now , but using a computer simulator . |
| 21 | Other fields that we 've been working on particularly are the educational field and the content and scale of education , it 's link with the unemployment problem and it would take too long really to list the whole range . |
| 22 | You will stay here long time ? ’ |
| 23 | For looking ahead even a mere 10 years or so , it is possible and even probable , that a much smaller proportion of people 's lives will be spent in paid employment ( Gilg , 1983c ) , and that people will retire earlier , work far fewer hours and days per week , and will have very long holidays , so that work can be shared around . |
| 24 | All it means is that you will take slightly longer to achieve your goal — that 's all ! |
| 25 | But the putt she will take rather longer to forget was her seven-footer at the sixth . |
| 26 | This is particularly important where interview panels are made up of people who do not normally work together , and also where there are a lot of people who will take correspondingly longer to learn to work as a team . |
| 27 | But it will take far longer for the core to turn . |
| 28 | If on the other hand you frequently send out stories which will be of interest to quite a wide selection of the media it will take too long to go through a large directory and jot down the names every time . |
| 29 | So perhaps we might need to do might want to until I return , which I should n't think will take too long . |
| 30 | Mr Freitag says it will take too long to give proper values and that will lead to disputes . |