Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 Cool , refreshing pastel shades are just right for a long hot summer !
2 The organization 's market share had been relatively stable for a long time and even growing in concert with the growth in world economies .
3 It would not have been possible for the long progression towards the perfect physical being , to have ever occurred at all , if it were encumbered by the constraints of compassion , an emotion which , by the very nature of evolution was completely non-existent before the dawn of civilisation .
4 Of course , some sort of pattern can be teased out of the most disordered subject though it may take half a dozen attempts before a pictorial structure emerges ; such an unhurried approach is not always possible for the long distance traveller .
5 By careful timing , which is possible during a longer stay , you can avoid most of the crowds .
6 Nan had been so supportive during the long war waged with Brian .
7 Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time .
8 ‘ It feels like I 've been asleep for a long , long time .
9 You 've been asleep for a long time . ’
10 ‘ But I tried being polite for a long time , Aunt Ruth , and it got me nowhere .
11 Grown in impoverished conditions , the plant becomes stunted but remains alive for a long time while many small shoots develop to give the appearance of an irregularly worn shaving-brush .
12 ‘ He 's not been like that for a long time . ’
13 And … and I 've known that for a long time . ’
14 They stayed like that for a long moment and then he said , ‘ Light the candle . ’
15 I 've been doing that for a long , long time .
16 Yes , I 've known that for a long time .
17 " I know , " Patrick said defiantly , realizing what she was trying to do , " I 've known that for a long time . "
18 I have n't seen that for a long time
19 At night we were visited by entrepreneurs in sarongs and Muslim black felt " peci " hats , who knocked so quietly that for a long time we thought they were merely underpowered geckos .
20 I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ?
21 Okay you wo n't need to know that for a long time yet anyway will you .
22 Charlotte and I sat like that for a long time , remembering .
23 Chesarynth concentrated on the maths of it so hard that for a long time she ignored the awareness tugging at her subconscious .
24 She had not done that for a long time .
25 They stayed like that for a long time , sometimes moving , sometimes still , the hardness of him and the warmth and softness of her blended into one .
26 Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time .
27 He pulled me to my feet , and flung his arms around me and squeezed me as if he wanted to gather me right into himself , never let me go , and we stayed like that for a long time , not speaking , rocking to and fro .
28 They lay like that for a long time .
29 He sat like that for a long time .
30 He had talked like that for a long time now .
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