Example sentences of "[art] long time now " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before , but not for a long time now , ’ Maggie admitted reluctantly and Rose did not want to learn any more . |
| 2 | For a long time now , they have n't been looking at each other . |
| 3 | The resuscitation of Ali 's image has been a sporadic exercise for a long time now , some of it coming from friends who have experienced heartfelt pain over his illness . |
| 4 | For a long time now , he has appeared indifferent to the ravages of his problem . |
| 5 | For a long time now we 've called ourselves poor , but we 've managed to get along . |
| 6 | There 's no hurry for that now that the money 's been cut back , Mr Silver can go on economising on space and heat and lighting for his twelve women workers for a good few years yet , and in any case , no-one 's been round to check up on him for a long time now . |
| 7 | Paul 's verdict : Bags have been around a long time now and Rohan can justifiably claim to have prompted other companies to come up with versions of their original . |
| 8 | Yes , I 've always , I 've always understood , understood more recently the reason why that there would always seemed to be enough prisoners , when we know there really must be enough prisoners throughout the world is that the betting procedure and they 're making quite sure they 're the right people takes time and money and effort , erm , that 's part and also there are some areas of the world now , where , where there are n't as many prisoners as there were , there are very few , there are very few prisoners of conscience in Latin America because they do n't put them in prison they just get rid of them , they just disappear and there are practically , practically none from Latin America countries , cos of these , these disappearances rather than being put in prison , erm , but it 's a sort of combination of reasons I think but er quite a long time now , ten , fifteen years I think groups have only had one prisoner , whereas when I first joined and Ann 's there , we had three did n't we at one time ? |
| 9 | Right , now if we look on , erm we come to Regional Action Networks , another reason why Amnesty seems not to allocate more than one prisoner and all now is that they have expanded the ways in which we deal with prisoners and the world is more or less been divided up into areas , erm , of smaller regions and groups are asked to choose one or two regions to deal with particularly and we , we have for quite a long time now erm been concerned with Southern Africa and Central America and we get information through on prisoners and what 's happening in those two regions , so John do you have anything else on Africa at all ? |
| 10 | I 've been worried sick for such a long time now , I 'm afraid my mind is playing me tricks . |
| 11 | For a long time now scientists have been aware of , and occasionally fallen victim to , a myriad of biases and artifacts which tend to falsify the results of factual investigations . |
| 12 | Been my major struggle for a long time now . |
| 13 | For a long time now I 've intended going North . |
| 14 | quite a long time now I begin to understand there are M S twos and threes are project engineers , and I |
| 15 | And that 's rather a pity because we 've been doing these holidays for a long time now , and I think , those people have enjoyed themselves ? |
| 16 | I think I have been dead for a long time now . |
| 17 | She had known for a long time now . |
| 18 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 19 | And yet for , for a long time now whether it comes to dental payment , paying for dentists , opticians , now they 're talking about prescription charges and , and that sort of thing for not just myself , not just us , but for children as well . |
| 20 | It has been argued , for a long time now , that the reason girls do not do so well at mathematics is that females , from at least adolescence onwards , have poorer spatial visualisation ability than males . |
| 21 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 22 | They had been father and daughter , and sworn enemies , for a long time now ; they understood each other too well for comfort . |
| 23 | Well it 's been a long time now . ’ |
| 24 | Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’ |
| 25 | He had talked like that for a long time now . |
| 26 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |
| 27 | For a long time now Luce had been a great admirer of Peter Sebastian 's work , and had been over the moon when she 'd been approached and offered this wonderful opportunity . |
| 28 | ‘ We have been asking for this specialist help at the Memorial hospital for a long time now , but there has been no movement from the health authority over this matter . ’ |
| 29 | That 's been gone a long time now . |
| 30 | you see with me living on my own for such a long time now , erm it seems er it seemed to get in the way , you had the television and |