Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's not painted for so long that she 'll just have to be encouraged more and more . |
| 2 | The interview need not be long but Sheila will have discovered that there are people who will listen and she is now more likely to take up any referral she is given for more long term counselling . |
| 3 | SIR — As a convicted British tribalist , Scottish branch , may I urge the new Government of Great Britain not to make the same mistake as the British tribalists , English branch , who failed for so long to find a use for County Hall in London after Livingstone et al. |
| 4 | Do you know , I mean for so long now we 've done it very much on personal effort . |
| 5 | A shadowy image of herself stood there , nodding and smiling shyly , while the real Isabel remained in the cold , lonely place she had inhabited for so long and grimly decided that the first step was almost accomplished . |
| 6 | A distinction can be made between short-term potentiation ( STP ) , which decays within 1h , and long-term potentiation ( LTP ) , which is sustained for much longer periods . |
| 7 | But I still felt as though I 'd have a nervous breakdown if I had to cope for much longer … . |
| 8 | He asked members to support the motion so that the Attorney General as a member of the Government and as leader of this profession could convey to the Government our sense of disgust at the way we had been treated for so long ( sustained applause ) . |
| 9 | Because of the delicacy of the pigments and potential damage if exposed for too long to light , the papyrus will not be on continuous show . |
| 10 | Novell Inc has finally produced the big restructuring that it has been planning and ( sort of ) denying for so long and which led to the departure of Tony Scrivens as UK managing director . |
| 11 | Teachers often report that they completely switch off at the beginning of the holidays , or sleep for abnormally long periods of time for several days . |
| 12 | The Tory Government , my Lord Mayor , has for too long denied people the real choice . |
| 13 | We did n't wait for very long in the did we ? |
| 14 | But I ca n't wait for that long ! |
| 15 | These friendly and hard-working people will not wait for much longer to reclaim their birthright . |
| 16 | It is possible for the race to be won at very long odds , and on two or three occasions , assisted by Wigg , I had been able to locate the winning horse , or at least a horse in the first three , which , if the odds were long enough , nevertheless produced a satisfactory result . |
| 17 | The importance of readability has been upheld for so long that all manner of methods have been devised for its measurement . |
| 18 | Interestingly , in those subjects living for fairly long periods in isolation , in whom the pattern of sleep and activity becomes irregular ( see Chapter 2 ) , meals too become erratic in their numbers and composition . |
| 19 | Ever since she had left school Paula had worked in one of the big department stores in Bristol and she loved it , although the lengthy journey made for very long days and the bus fares ate holes in her meagre salary . |
| 20 | As Weatherall suggested in his 1992 Harveian oration , this implies either that the positive selective forces favouring the thrifty genotype were not as strong in Europeans or that the negative selective forces of a sedentary , well nourished lifestyle have operated for sufficiently long to diminish the frequency of the genotype . |
| 21 | 17.66 The SATs at ages 14 and 16 should provide pupils with a wide choice , but should require them to produce a number of contrasting pieces of writing within both long and short timed tasks and spanning the range from imaginative literary uses of language to the clear and orderly presentation of information and argument . |
| 22 | The record is spasmodic and ridiculously incomplete , with particular strata and fossils extremely widespread , hut separated by vastly longer gaps than anything that is preserved . |
| 23 | The real giants were the lumbering sauropods ( Diplodocus , Brachiosaurus , etc. ) , four-legged dinosaurs , with enormously long necks only matched by equally long tails . |
| 24 | The dry stores , says GEC , are cheaper than conventional water pools , leak less radioactivity and can be used for much longer periods . |
| 25 | These names are either prescribed by law ( wholemeal bread ) or clearly descriptive ( beef stew and dumpling ) or , in the case of fish fingers , the name has been used for so long that everyone knows what they are . |
| 26 | The coolies sensed their fright instantly and in a moment forty or fifty of them were advancing menacingly on the little group of overseers , brandishing the implements they had used for so long to tend the rubber plantation under their ruthless tutelage . |
| 27 | Erm Why did he work for so long ? |
| 28 | Ten minutes too long during a schooling session might mean a week 's set-back in a training programme , so be careful not to either work for too long or to expect too much too soon . |
| 29 | Julian May 's Jack the Bodiless ( Pan , £4.99 ) was promised for so long that when it finally came out it took everyone by surprise , including the hardback publisher HarperCollins , and it went o.p. within days of publication . |
| 30 | All those words he had hoarded for so long and released so grudgingly . |