Example sentences of "[prep] a long time " in BNC.
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| 31 | It took a hell of a long time but learn we did . |
| 32 | That 's what I did when I started my furniture business , building it up gradually from a crude workshop and it took a hell of a long time . |
| 33 | Richard Charkin is blunt about the difficulty Waterstones faces : ‘ Under the rules of the NBA you can discount after a year , but a year 's a hell of a long time to tie up dead stock . ’ |
| 34 | There was a special unit set up here , Animal Rights National Index , but these idiots had tight security , a good cut-off cell system , and it took us a hell of a long time to open the can . |
| 35 | But the caves which are of interest to British cavers are inland caves — formed with the key ingredients of water , limestone and one hell of a long time . |
| 36 | I mean Stephen is a heck of a long time ago , he 's the very first martyr , and we although we celebrate his feast day still on December the twenty sixth because he is the first martyr , he 's quite a long way away . |
| 37 | Find Sophie again , because something was happening there that has n't happened to me in a hell of a long time . |
| 38 | A hell of a long time . |
| 39 | ‘ It took me a hell of a long time to get everyone to go , ’ Faye 's husband said explosively as he strode into the room . |
| 40 | No erm er even now , and the the strike 's been finished I ca n't remember four months or something , three months , you know the community I think it 'll take a a hell of a long time to heal the rifts and mend the scars . |
| 41 | So if somebody gets H I , yes , because gets , takes out a policy at twenty five , gets diagnosed H I V at thirty , and they 're still living , they have n't actually got full blown aids , and they can live for a hell of a long time afterwards , they 're paying their W O P premium for a long , long time . |
| 42 | ‘ Then it 's lasted a hell of a long time . |
| 43 | We had a hell of a long time in the what 's it ? |
| 44 | it 's a bit of a long time , because I come back January the fourteenth , fourteenth , and I 've had all Christmas off , have n't I ? |
| 45 | hell of a long time |
| 46 | the possibility of a longer time scale for task completion |
| 47 | Endill did not move for what seemed like a long time . |
| 48 | The three years stretching ahead seemed like a long time , then , worth buying a little house in Rummidge for ( Robyn 's father lent her the money for the deposit ) rather than paying rent . |
| 49 | It all seemed like a long time ago , but actually it was only this morning . |
| 50 | That might seem like a long time , but the issues have clearly been complex , and have been progressed as quickly as possible not least through vigourous prodding by the D O E , keen to see approval of a long term development strategy for Greater York and more importantly , a statutory definition of the York gre greenbelt . |
| 51 | One hundred years seems like a long time to us , because it is longer than our lifetime . |
| 52 | For a long time deemed a white , Western organization , the setting up of section sin countries like Tunisia , Algeria and South Korea , are ample illustration of Amnesty 's worldwide stature . |
| 53 | I think it 's all over for a long time . |
| 54 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |
| 55 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 56 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 57 | Had been dreaming about this for a long time , he wrote . |
| 58 | Yesterday he rang the bell for a long time but no point in opening the door . |
| 59 | They were in there for a long time . |
| 60 | The festival is also screening POISON , one of the most controversial American films for a long time , which has caused storms of protest in the States and will be a film that has everyone talking . |