Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] so long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument begs the massive question of why productivity has been absolutely so low for so long . |
| 2 | And another Quote of the Week ( and how long we have had to wait for the national press to notice what has been so obvious for so long ) : ‘ With Waterstones backed by W H Smith , and Pentos ’ gearing rising , there can be little doubt who has the deeper pockets to fight a protracted battle . |
| 3 | While George Bush promised no new taxes , Clinton said that he would rebuild the economy by penalising high earners who have had it so good for so long . |
| 4 | How did the world remain so blind for so long ? |
| 5 | At one point , early on , this kid was counting out money and saying something like , you have n't got a choice there and if you do n't like it you can shop around , when we said , in a voice I 'd never heard before , a voice that no longer pretended to be nice , a voice that expressed all the effort of pretending to be so nice for so long . |
| 6 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 7 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |
| 8 | She had been almost unnaturally brave for so long , and now it was as though she had been given licence to cry over everything . |
| 9 | Obviously now he 's got his life to put back together which will be very hard after so long . |
| 10 | But , as Schopf asks , if such diverse communities were present at this early date , why did their members remain essentially unchanged for so long ? |