Example sentences of "[noun pl] [art] long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had stayed at the baths a long time , probably getting a chill , but worst of all no-one would testify that the water in the pool had had a proper dose of chlorine . |
| 2 | It had taken the mice a long time to explore , they had made short excited scurrying runs across the floor , then back to the hutch , nervous , unsure , limiting themselves to a small prescribed space , only later stepping out of it , extending their freedom . |
| 3 | Your people ripped off the land from the Indians a long time ago . |
| 4 | Phone calls are thoroughly screened ; people have to make appointments a long time in advance . |
| 5 | But I learnt to control my baser urges a long time ago . |
| 6 | It took the mantri a long time to work right round the bull , from shoulder to rump down one side and then from rump to shoulder back up the other . |
| 7 | mathematicians a long time but it does help . |
| 8 | ‘ It has taken many geologists a long time to accept plate tectonics ’ , Dr Blake told New Scientist at the survey 's west coast headquarters in Menlo Park , south of San Francisco . |
| 9 | I 've been in steam stations as well as steam turbines a long time since but with steam you can use it over again . |
| 10 | ‘ We were friends a long time ago , during the war . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ They were friends a long time ago . |
| 12 | To discover that there is no difference in meaning between two forms may , of course , take children a long time . |
| 13 | The handcuffs are cumbersome , perhaps little used , and it takes an askari a long time to adjust them to Tepilit 's thin wrists . |