Example sentences of "[verb] for [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 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Tory Government , my Lord Mayor , has for too long denied people the real choice . |
| 11 | We did n't wait for very long in the did we ? |
| 12 | But I ca n't wait for that long ! |
| 13 | The importance of readability has been upheld for so long that all manner of methods have been devised for its measurement . |
| 14 | Yet , problems related to patients could not be modified , and undoubtedly further study is required to define for how long and at what speed the impeller can be rotated without microscopic damage to the gall bladder in vivo . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Erm Why did he work for so long ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | All those words he had hoarded for so long and released so grudgingly . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've been isolated for so long and we all thought we were so bloody good but now we have to accept the reality that we are not . ’ |
| 25 | And any government which is going to be formed in the centre I do n't think it is going to last for too long . |
| 26 | Some ornamental crab apples flower for so long that they will pollinate your fruiting apples whatever their flowering season . |
| 27 | This will be quite different to their usual routine , of course , when they may sleep for quite long periods . |
| 28 | ‘ He was n't , ’ said my mother , perhaps because she had concurred for too long and now it was time for contradiction . |
| 29 | I have noticed that this frustrating experience usually occurs in promising conditions when you expect to catch fish , and when these bites begin they last for unusually long periods and happen very frequently . |
| 30 | ‘ You train for so long and so hard that you need a break afterwards . |