Example sentences of "[prep] quite [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looks like quite a long meeting . |
| 2 | Sometimes as adults if a child for instance asks the question ‘ what is death ’ it is very easy to go into quite a long diatribe about life and death and get really profound , whereas in fact all a child may be wanting to know is how do you know if somebody 's dead , how can you tell the difference between somebody being dead and somebody being asleep ? |
| 3 | In fact , you were the first woman I 'd made love to in quite a long time , and I have n't even been interested in anyone since you were offered this job here and accepted it . |
| 4 | ‘ No , darling , but Mother and Lady Selvedge have come from quite a long way — miles , really — and those two young men talking to Ianthe are strangers , and I dare say Mr Stonebird will look in , ’ said Sophia comfortingly . |
| 5 | Research on visual memory , moreover , shows that recognition of pictures , after one quite short exposure , is normally very high over quite a long period . |
| 6 | With press media , it is possible to spread the same money over a much longer period , especially if monthly magazines are used , since monthlies accumulate their readership of as many as 10 or 11 readers per copy over quite a long period . |
| 7 | whatever replaces R three and R three , and R three will have a product line for seven or eight years , we 're talking about quite a long time away . |
| 8 | Being directly overhead , the field is one of the worst positions from which to extricate yourself because you have to fly blind , away from the field , for quite a long time to get out to the side for a reasonable base leg . |
| 9 | I discovered that for quite a long part of their career , every Simon and Garfunkel recording used a set of distinctive and unusual percussion sounds . |
| 10 | For my hands were not together — They were holding another hand — I felt the weight and the warmth of it for quite a long time … |
| 11 | I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time . |
| 12 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 13 | It survived for quite a long time , until the accumulating ash had built up to such a thickness that its chain would no longer allow it to keep above the ash , and it died , its dreadful last moments clearly visible in its taut body , arched back and straining neck . |
| 14 | Henry sat for quite a long time thinking about the conversation between Elinor and her mother as they hurtled down the Paso della Lagastrella , brakeless . |
| 15 | Nobody said anything after that for quite a long time . |
| 16 | The toy that I remember lasting for quite a long time was a beautifully made wooden engine with its tender and two trucks . |
| 17 | You had them for quite a long while . |
| 18 | I could no longer contain my emotion , but going down on my knees I wept as quietly as I could for quite a long while . |
| 19 | I waited for quite a long time . |
| 20 | That said , your fish will appreciate a good feed of , day , Daphnia , and enjoy chasing them for quite a long time , so the quantity is a little less critical than with prepared food . |
| 21 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 22 | It is also advisable not to wear contact lenses , as you will have your eyes closed for quite a long time , usually about twenty minutes . |
| 23 | Linda Evangelista was brilliantly marketed but there was never quite the attention until she had been established for quite a long time . ’ |
| 24 | For quite a long way , I think . ’ |
| 25 | Then I worked for Jimmy Young for quite a long time … he saved my bacon . |
| 26 | Their kills tend to be rich in protein , providing enough energy to sustain them for quite a long time . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | For quite a long time the prevailing view among economists had been that money does not affect the relative prices of commodities , but that it does determine the overall price level . |
| 29 | The adventure ties up a computer for quite a long time . |
| 30 | from er statement banks for pupils for quite a long time and why |