Example sentences of "[art] long time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , you see , I asked that question , the final one , the only one that mattered , a long time after . |
| 2 | But I did n't learn that until a long time after . |
| 3 | In the modern age , institutions outside the family have been created to administer public affairs and women were for a long time expressly excluded . |
| 4 | ‘ Bill and I talked about the amniocentesis for a long time tonight , and we 've decided against it . ’ |
| 5 | Christmas was a long time away and it would mount up . |
| 6 | It was less the fear of hell ( which seemed a long time away ) than the fear of being a non-person which prompted me to ask my parents if I could be baptised . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's a long time away , ’ he said doubtfully . |
| 8 | And September was a long time away . |
| 9 | He felt that he had been a long time away . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They were both quiet for a long time both thinking much the same thing : was such a pretence a way of beginning or would it destroy the might have-been ? |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman asks whether we could debate them after they have been debated in the European Community , but we are talking about a long time ahead . |
| 13 | The tobacco industry plans a long time ahead . |
| 14 | That 's a long time ahead two weekends to go You ought to see how badly that ca n't you when you ha ha three bits on there suppose you could do that now could n't you ? |
| 15 | A long time later , or perhaps only a few seconds , she thought she saw her father 's face white as paper , floating among the clouds , then it dissolved into the face of an elderly stranger bending over her . |
| 16 | A long time later she finally drifted into sleep . |
| 17 | And it must have been the fever , Isabel decided a long time later , when she at last had time to sit down and rest . |
| 18 | The girls got their showers , a long time later , but not their sleep . |
| 19 | ‘ Matthew , ’ she gasped , surfacing a long time later . |
| 20 | A long time later , they lay quietly in each other 's arms again . |
| 21 | It must have been the change in engine tone that woke her a long time later . |
| 22 | A long time later she stirred , and Travis shifted his weight , drawing her into the warm curve of his body . |
| 23 | A long time later he raised his head and said huskily , ‘ Are you sure ? ’ |
| 24 | Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's . |
| 25 | Researchers investigating the causes of psychological depression spent a long time carefully documenting how severe , traumatizing events that happen to people , such as bereavement or job loss , can induce it . |
| 26 | In New York they were called an hour before the show opened , and once they had done their face make-up , they only had to put on tights rather than spend a long time carefully using wet white , which gave them longer to gossip . |
| 27 | Toby ( 4.5 ) had been playing with blocks , but then wandered away and the blocks were put away by two other boys , who spent a long time carefully fitting the different sizes of blocks into the two boxes . |
| 28 | I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump . |
| 29 | In a cold fury he stood and sat about for a long time within , twice changing from chair to chair . |
| 30 | Schemes of the same kind were drawn up for the forests of Chute , Pickering and Knaresborough , and in the soke of Somersham within the forest of Huntingdon , which the Attorney-General reported ‘ had not been in use for a long time past . |