Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not make unnecessarily long calls as they are wasteful . |
| 2 | The tenant should ensure that the landlord is not given too long to make up its mind and the period of 60 days suggested by the precedent seems fair to both sides . |
| 3 | Many do not remain sufficiently long as temporary workers or with any one agency to be entitled to any rights even if they were to have dependent employee status . |
| 4 | This is adequate to give a good reverberation effect , but the unit can not provide very long reverberation times of the type associated with spring-line reverberation units . |
| 5 | He did not believe that long discussion was of great value , rather that a considered insight or idea produced far more than a wealth of verbal expression . |
| 6 | As he kicks , slide the rear foot back and withdraw your leading foot by an equal amount so that your stance does not become too long . |
| 7 | It 's not waiting too long ? |
| 8 | That impatient man did not have so long to wait as he had feared , for the very next evening a young townsman arrived at Hoddom from Annan , ten miles distant , with the news that Edward Balliol had indeed returned to his army . |
| 9 | Hopefully Class 42XX 2-8-OT No. 4253 will not take too long to return to full working order . |
| 10 | I 'm sure a lot of , it it 'll not take as long to sort it out , because we 've broken . |
| 11 | It need not take very long but it should be fairly strenuous — running up and down stairs a few times will do . |
| 12 | It may be that with adequate supervision and a period of reorientation it will not take very long to prepare yourself for a new role , but do take care to acknowledge your limitations , and to make known to your manager how these are likely to affect the care you give . |
| 13 | We did not recommend either long or short treatment for acute pyelonephritis , and consider that serial clinical and microbiological assessment is more important than didactic adherence to a predetermined treatment schedule . |
| 14 | If the latter , how will they present the facts ; that the child will probably not live very long ; may have an ‘ unhappy ’ life ; will need constant supervision and care ; be perhaps better off unborn ? |
| 15 | Unfortunately , he did not live very long . |
| 16 | He 's not taken that long . |
| 17 | The TV playback showed that Southall had held the ball for 13 seconds , although it did not seem as long at the time . |
| 18 | He was aware of the immense arrogance of this , but he knew he had not mistaken that long , steady look . |
| 19 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 20 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 21 | No , she , she said that erm , did n't stay very long , but |
| 22 | Er some neighbours cut each other 's lawn while they 're away so the grass does n't grow too long and make sure that the mail 's moved away from the letter box . |
| 23 | Oh I have n't got that long to make them , yet am I ? |
| 24 | I do n't know I did n't stare that long . |
| 25 | They looked pretty good — all colourful and that , but I did n't stop too long to watch them . |
| 26 | It has n't seemed that long because for ten of them she was on the phone and another ten in shoe shops . |
| 27 | ‘ It ca n't take too long to prepare Wavebreaker for a long voyage , can it ? ’ |
| 28 | The last bit of ascent into the upper coire is stony , but it does n't take too long to cross the ice-worn boiler plates to reach the lovely little lochan nestling there . |
| 29 | So that 's it for this week , sorry we did n't have room for our promised body building item , I 've been told to work on my pecs before we get back to it and er it should n't take too long . |
| 30 | Erm I hope it did n't take too long to read our statement . |