Example sentences of "[adv] for [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The applause that greeted them was like a thunder clap and went on for so long that the Girls could not hear the music and had to count under their breath to synchronize their kicks . |
| 2 | Talks incessantly to the point of forgetting what the original question was , using long , rambling sentences which go on for so long that the interviewee ca n't remember where they started . |
| 3 | Looking back I find it hard to believe that I did n't keep abreast of all the war news ; but the war had been going on for so long that I , like almost every girl of my generation , had lost interest in it . |
| 4 | Does the Secretary of State agree that it is vital that the public inquiry in Leicestershire establishes the circumstances that permitted the regime of terror to go on for so long and that permitted complaints made by the children to be ignored for long ? |
| 5 | Pauchling the figures has gone on for so long that even the newscasters have got sloppy , mostly failing to add the rider that the bald headcount does not include anybody excluded from claiming benefit for whatever reason . |
| 6 | But it was Berty getting stuck on the it did go on for so long . |
| 7 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 8 | Now of course the difficulty you ca n't i it 's a personal thing and you do n't like standing watching all this operation going on for too long . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , John was unable to recover from the hunger , thirst and cold he had endured alone for so long and he died peacefully on 3rd November , 1835 , 3 days after he was rescued . |
| 10 | There is little systematic evidence of how people in other cultures get on with one another , but it should be noted that within a tribal community there may be such strong libidinal ties among the members that the interrelations among them appear peaceful , and may be so for quite long periods of time . |
| 11 | ‘ If anything , containers were left in for too long to start with , though often it works well to leave the containers rinsing while you 're doing something else like working out field rates . ’ |
| 12 | But there are guidelines for women using tampons : Do n't leave a tampon in for too long ( time differs depending on menstrual flow ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't think we 'd be together for so long but we 've grown up together and been through some brutal things . ’ |
| 14 | I ca n't see them keeping that division together for very long |
| 15 | I think having I think having waited so patiently for so long that you can wait a little lo further . |
| 16 | The weather dictated that stock must remain indoors for very long periods . |
| 17 | One training organisation , which had taken a twenty three percent cut in funds in 1990 ninety one , had to take a further twenty percent cut this year , and the people who are worst affected by these cuts were the very people that the Tory Party had been crying crocodile tears over for so long . |
| 18 | Not for very long though , but erm most of the time I spent away living in Birmingham . |
| 19 | It seems a pity but it 's not for very long . |
| 20 | Too much emotion has been bottled up for too long and in some firms the performance-reward link is seriously distorted . |
| 21 | I mean it 's not er it 's not something that I would normally do , I mean I would be quite happy to chat to somebody probably for too long . |
| 22 | You should always be on the look out for extra long pentatonic licks that move horizontally along the fretboard , weaving right through and linking up two or more of the five pentatonic positions . |
| 23 | ‘ But I believe it would be unfair on him after being out for so long to go straight back in and do a job . |
| 24 | Of course pyons have been around now for so long that you do n't need high energy machines to produce pyons . |
| 25 | Almost invariably , when that happens , its blue tail drops off and lies wriggling on the rock with such vigour that the aggressor 's attention is diverted to it , often for sufficiently long for the skink itself to slip free and escape . |
| 26 | Thank you Chairman and Town Clerk and Councillors for attending that meeting because this has been a problem here for so long that I think all of us would be delighted to see it resolved to the er satisfaction of the local residents . |
| 27 | eleven forty six , he 's got them inside , I think I told you about this did n't I ? , and I was inside helping them out like , he was outside , he did n't have his gas mask , we were doing the things , like M B C stuff , and I 'm inside and he said right you will each go to a post , where inside this tent , each to go to er , erm , cos there was six people inside and like there was six posts , he said you each got to a post inside the tent and on the you will pick up the tent , and I new what was coming , done it before sort of thing and erm , were all in M B C stuff cos there 's still lots of gas , but there was n't for very long , and he said right on the you will , er he just said , we picked it up right , were all fucking all fucking I said go on then , |
| 28 | I 've been to Germany and Austria skiing , I 've been to , er we went to Italy but I was , you know , I was quite a bit younger and it was n't for very long . |
| 29 | They 'll tell you that Excel has been around for too long and its days are numbered . |
| 30 | In any case , the phobia had been around for so long that one extra week would not really make any difference . |