Example sentences of "[art] long time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is absent yet meticulous , paying for a missing drink-shop teaspoon which has nothing to do with him , and spending a long time in the ‘ interesting occupation ’ of trying to catch a fly . |
| 2 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 3 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 4 | OIL RICH beats filthy rich every time , but after several years of battling to remain buoyant in the remorseless wake of the Maktoums , Robert Sangster clambered back on to terra firma with his most significant win for a long time in Saturday 's Hoover Fillies ' Mile at Ascot . |
| 5 | Once again , the intensity of contact spread over such a long time in the field makes this form of self-monitoring difficult to maintain , and there was also a general resistance from below to the management 's instruction . |
| 6 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 7 | He deliberated for a long time in front of the pad , and then suddenly rose and put it away without writing anything . |
| 8 | The ‘ Beeb ’ has been kind to its commentators — thirty years is a long time in television — and they in turn have served it well , adjusting cleverly to the growing informality of broadcasting without ever quite forgetting the august institution in which ‘ they serve ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ It 'll take a long time in the courts , wo n't it , though ? ’ |
| 10 | But three months is a long time in Euro-politics . |
| 11 | A long time in the dark and he d have to go a long way round if he was n't to upset the sheep and alert Jack . |
| 12 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 13 | ‘ People always want to see how the Führer looks , whether he is serious or laughing , ’ and had expressed disappointment that they had not even heard his voice for a long time in the newsreels , for , as one report put it , ‘ the words of the Führer are gospel for the people ’ . |
| 14 | I sat for what seemed a long time in the cold darkness , breathing shallowly , not moving at all , just waiting , and eventually there was a lightening of the shadows and a luminosity in the wood , and the moon rose clear and bright in the east . |
| 15 | The Commission on Analytical Nomenclature of IUPAC has been active for a long time in establishing nomenclature for chromatography . |
| 16 | But the old Jew sat for a long time in silence as the wind and rain in the darkness outside lashed at the windows of Damiani 's old home . |
| 17 | WHATEVER its origin , groundwater spends a long time in an aquifer . |
| 18 | In the beginning Lorna 's illustrious co-stars frequently appeared ; Paul Newman came once , Jo remembered , but three years is a long time in Hollywood and now lunches were becoming more intimate . |
| 19 | Also , the slow course of the disease implied that any drug would have to be given for a long time in order to be effective and so would have to be particularly harmless to patients . |
| 20 | Well that 's no surprise ; but it 's been a long time in coming . |
| 21 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 22 | It seemed to Lefevre that the splash took a long time in coming . |
| 23 | Three years is a long time in world politics . |
| 24 | Twenty years is a long time in the development of sexual experience . |
| 25 | Wise men are a long time in the ship |
| 26 | But although I played lead for a long time in the group I never cite lead players like Clapton or Beck . |
| 27 | It 's been a long time in the pipeline … |
| 28 | Or , if you like to spend a long time in the tub , you might like a wider one , which may well fit into the existing space . |
| 29 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |
| 30 | Phone calls are thoroughly screened ; people have to make appointments a long time in advance . |