Example sentences of "[vb infin] for [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did n't wait for very long in the did we ? |
| 2 | But I ca n't wait for that long ! |
| 3 | These friendly and hard-working people will not wait for much longer to reclaim their birthright . |
| 4 | Erm Why did he work for so long ? |
| 5 | Ten minutes too long during a schooling session might mean a week 's set-back in a training programme , so be careful not to either work for too long or to expect too much too soon . |
| 6 | This will be quite different to their usual routine , of course , when they may sleep for quite long periods . |
| 7 | I can walk for quite long distances now . ’ |
| 8 | The Criminal Justice Act will allow for much longer supervision of sex offenders after they are released from gaol . |
| 9 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 10 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 11 | I ca n't sit for much longer than an hour . |
| 12 | It can last for so long people |