Example sentences of "[vb base] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indulging in litigation may mean that you have to expend substantial sums of money and wait a long time before achieving victory ; to lose could prove very costly . |
| 2 | It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done . |
| 3 | Is he aware that even when people are examined , are found to have cataracts and wait a long time for the operation , some of them — such as a 91-year-old constituent of mine — are told that Royal Oldham hospital , which has been granted trust status , does not have the money to provide the necessary medicines and has money to help only the elderly ? |
| 4 | And I mean a long time ! ’ |
| 5 | Even though I make fun of it , and it 's not my favourite music , that does n't mean that it 's less valid than bands who last a long time , especially if it is enjoyed . |
| 6 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |
| 7 | Pro Arte brushes have lovely points which last a long time . |
| 8 | Hard disks last a long time but they do n't last for ever . |
| 9 | Sage , rosemary and lavender need no visual description , though it is not always realized that sage has spikes of vividly blue-mauve flowers which last a long time and are highly magnetic to bees . |
| 10 | " I know a long time . |
| 11 | And everybody was getting a bit bored with it cos as it dragged on this is s seven months when you know a long time to be I never thought it would have gone this as long as that when we started off with it . |
| 12 | You know a long time , a long time . |
| 13 | Even Mr Fraser of Neill 's , a source of many choice quotations on this issue had to admit that not all the women got married : " there are some who stay a long time . |
| 14 | Well I 'd like to say stay a long time but actually I thought |
| 15 | It 's the same sort of factor that allows anybody who smokes a lot to not get cancer and not get bronchitis and live , also live a long time . |
| 16 | But the wounds inflicted by the media will , it appears , take a long time to heal . |
| 17 | It was September , when the days take a long time to wake up and the green of the trees is brushed with gold . |
| 18 | ‘ I think it 's a waste of time growing vegetables such as sprouts and cabbages that take a long time to grow and are cheap in the shops , but I enjoy growing beans , carrots and marrows . |
| 19 | Also the carbs on the SD1 V8 engine take a long time to return to idle when you take your foot off the throttle . |
| 20 | Very dirty items , if they are cleaned immediately and take a long time , can upset the flow and cause a log-jam of dirties with congestion in the reception area which restricts work further . |
| 21 | A CAB interview with scant attention to emotional problems is generally lengthy because forms are complex ; because benefit calculations take a long time ; because contacting the Department of Social Security on the telephone takes even longer and calculating an equitable distribution of debt repayments longer still . |
| 22 | For one thing they are not really cultivated , mostly because the trees take a long time to bear fruit and even then are not very prolific . |
| 23 | It is towards high definition programs that take a long time to write . |
| 24 | The reason why some people take a long time to learn the Technique is because it is much simpler than they think . |
| 25 | The box and pyrotechnics take a long time to set up , so we ca n't rehearse and have to hope it will be all right on the night . |
| 26 | Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave . |
| 27 | But he knows that new formats take a long time to catch on with the public : ‘ We have n't got expectations of hundreds of thousands of units . |
| 28 | We often take a long time to hear of what is going on in the outside world and when we do find out , it can take even longer to get into the field . |
| 29 | We have asked to do so , but changes take a long time to come into effect . |
| 30 | Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it . |