Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] very long " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is adequate to give a good reverberation effect , but the unit can not provide very long reverberation times of the type associated with spring-line reverberation units . |
| 2 | It need not take very long but it should be fairly strenuous — running up and down stairs a few times will do . |
| 3 | It may be that with adequate supervision and a period of reorientation it will not take very long to prepare yourself for a new role , but do take care to acknowledge your limitations , and to make known to your manager how these are likely to affect the care you give . |
| 4 | If the latter , how will they present the facts ; that the child will probably not live very long ; may have an ‘ unhappy ’ life ; will need constant supervision and care ; be perhaps better off unborn ? |
| 5 | Unfortunately , he did not live very long . |
| 6 | In current practice , individual competition decisions thus contain very long and detailed preambles setting out the reasons for the operative part which is , by comparison , quite short . |
| 7 | Herbivores typically have very long guts containing various kinds of fermenting bacteria , since grass is a poor-quality food and needs a lot of digesting . |
| 8 | He started by doing stints in the three main factories in London , Manchester and Edinburgh , often working very long hours . |
| 9 | Residential care is very labour intensive , and fundamental to the viability of private homes is the heavy involvement of the owners and their families , often working very long hours . |
| 10 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 11 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 12 | No , she , she said that erm , did n't stay very long , but |
| 13 | It does n't take very long to master shaping methods and fairly soon the shaping can be hand-tooled with scarcely a check to the actual knitting while we attend to it . |
| 14 | ‘ I was , frankly , surprised , but did n't take very long to make up my mind that this was not an invitation you could refuse … or that I wanted to refuse . ’ |
| 15 | Now here of course , and , and by now we 've reached the closing pages of the book , though it 's actually quite a short book , erm , it does n't take very long to read . |
| 16 | three discs so that wo n't take very long . |
| 17 | or what have you , but erm , it do n't take very long |
| 18 | They do n't take very long to come . |
| 19 | to him , did n't take very long . |
| 20 | The only reason I can er play is that , your dinner wo n't take very long to get . |
| 21 | cauliflower wo n't take very long |
| 22 | And it did n't seem very long to the man anyway . |
| 23 | It does n't seem very long does it ? |
| 24 | Mind you , I do n't get very long to do it in . |
| 25 | Dad ran a garage and petrol station on the main road through Strathspeld village and Mum had a wee gift and coffee shop ; Dad had been worried after the Six-Day War when they 'd introduced the fifty-miles-an-hour speed limit and even issued fuel-rationing books , but that had n't lasted very long and , even though petrol cost more nowadays , people were still travelling and using cars . |
| 26 | corinder and no more except on occasions with great the bowl never wanted washing , the boys polished , polished them with their spoons till they shone again and when they , when they had to form this operation , which never took very long , the bowl , they would sit staring at the copper with such eager eyes as if they could of devoured a of which it was composed . |