Example sentences of "[vb base] for [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know , I mean for so long now we 've done it very much on personal effort . |
| 2 | Teachers often report that they completely switch off at the beginning of the holidays , or sleep for abnormally long periods of time for several days . |
| 3 | Some ornamental crab apples flower for so long that they will pollinate your fruiting apples whatever their flowering season . |
| 4 | I have noticed that this frustrating experience usually occurs in promising conditions when you expect to catch fish , and when these bites begin they last for unusually long periods and happen very frequently . |
| 5 | ‘ You train for so long and so hard that you need a break afterwards . |
| 6 | And I think for too long , we 've listened to the libertarians who want to think of the rights of the criminal all the time , and er , and do n't worry too much about the victim . |