Example sentences of "[prep] a very long " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this pays in the results you get only after a very long time . |
| 2 | If such businesses are independent and directly answerable to the stock market , any bad investment decisions would only become apparent after a very long time . |
| 3 | But decline does not mean " cessation " , immediately or even after a very long time ; although erection will occur gradually less often , ejaculation will take longer to achieve with the passing years and the frequency of sexual intercourse tends slowly to decrease , there need not be any enormous difference sexually between a man of 20 and one of 70 . |
| 4 | ‘ No , ’ she said at last , after a very long pause . |
| 5 | Solid drinking ‘ Two years ago I had a one-day relapse after a very long time of being sober . |
| 6 | It 's very satisfying after a very long investigation . |
| 7 | It is the end of a very long era . |
| 8 | Just inside the entrance , she turned to survey the clientèle , making sure as she did so that all the men got a tantalising glimpse of a very long and elegant leg exposed through a side slit . |
| 9 | On the whole , they appear as keen at the end of a very long day as at the beginning . |
| 10 | She had , to hand , the lavatory brush , three toilet rolls and the hardback edition of a very long novel by a Peruvian author with an unpronounceable name . |
| 11 | The organ here is a fine instrument , well played by Bernard Gavoty , and this account takes its place at or near the top of a very long list . |
| 12 | For either Concerto , this new disc deserves a place close to the top of a very long list . |
| 13 | This may be the middle of the afternoon to you , to me it 's evening — and the end of a very long day . ’ |
| 14 | It 's like being a very little fish on the end of a very long line . ’ |
| 15 | Certain ancient stains along the approach corridor — which resembled the rib cage of a very long whale — had suggested that those ribs could clash shut at any sign of unwelcome visitors , imprisoning or crushing intruders . |
| 16 | Only at the end of a very long career did he occasionally depart from the highest standards of restrained good taste . |
| 17 | Statements by the West German Bundesbank indicate that it views monetary union as a state which comes only at the end of a very long process of economic convergence . |
| 18 | So here we are today , almost at the end of a very long process , having experienced a wide ranging debate about the future of Greater York and numerous consultation exercises . |
| 19 | Holmes , for example , whose textbook ‘ Principles of physical geology ’ was used by generations of geology students , once had a paper rejected by the Geological Society of London , and thereafter refused to submit any papers to any of that body 's journals , throughout a very long and prolific career . |
| 20 | It seemed like a very long time ago when I and others followed Lovat into this house . |
| 21 | The return trek can seem like a very long haul but all the effort seems well worthwhile by the time you 're comfortably sitting in the bar at the Sligachan Hotel cradling your glass of single malt . |
| 22 | The 'phone rang for a very long time and when Mrs Pettifer eventually answered she sounded quite put out . |
| 23 | ‘ As far as the grassroots are concerned we have got one , and I hope we have her for a very long time . ’ |
| 24 | It has been a shareholder for a very long time in some private companies and I think we 've become known to be a supportive shareholder . |
| 25 | On the other hand all modern anthropologists and archaeologists would agree with the view that for a very long period of history mankind has existed solely by hunting , fishing , and gathering , and that such a technological stage always precedes domestication of plants and animals . |
| 26 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 27 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 28 | It is important to have been about for a very long time . |
| 29 | Owen O'Neil agrees : ‘ There 's no major comedy circuit in Northern Ireland in the way there is in London , but people have survived for a very long time on the strength of their own sense of humour . ’ |
| 30 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |