Example sentences of "[prep] a very long time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And this pays in the results you get only after a very long time . |
| 2 | If such businesses are independent and directly answerable to the stock market , any bad investment decisions would only become apparent after a very long time . |
| 3 | But decline does not mean " cessation " , immediately or even after a very long time ; although erection will occur gradually less often , ejaculation will take longer to achieve with the passing years and the frequency of sexual intercourse tends slowly to decrease , there need not be any enormous difference sexually between a man of 20 and one of 70 . |
| 4 | Solid drinking ‘ Two years ago I had a one-day relapse after a very long time of being sober . |
| 5 | It seemed like a very long time ago when I and others followed Lovat into this house . |
| 6 | The 'phone rang for a very long time and when Mrs Pettifer eventually answered she sounded quite put out . |
| 7 | ‘ As far as the grassroots are concerned we have got one , and I hope we have her for a very long time . ’ |
| 8 | It has been a shareholder for a very long time in some private companies and I think we 've become known to be a supportive shareholder . |
| 9 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 10 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 11 | It is important to have been about for a very long time . |
| 12 | Owen O'Neil agrees : ‘ There 's no major comedy circuit in Northern Ireland in the way there is in London , but people have survived for a very long time on the strength of their own sense of humour . ’ |
| 13 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've worked together for a very long time . ’ |
| 15 | If you have been hunting for the perfect diet for a very long time it will be difficult to stop , actually to believe that good weight control can be established without resorting to one special diet that you go on ( and then , and this is the snag , come off again ) . |
| 16 | Christian festivals had coexisted for a very long time with ancient non-Christian celebrations . |
| 17 | If ever this ended , I thought , I would n't go walking in woodland for a very long time . |
| 18 | We have been a nation state for a very long time . |
| 19 | Short trousers , grubby knees , odd socks , and a pair of indescribable shoes that had belonged to his elder brother , completed the picture of a happy child , unlikely to be able to spell simple words like ‘ class ’ for a very long time . |
| 20 | Riverside conditions such as that , must have continued to exist for a very long time , for when the Romans arrived and established — about A.D.47 — a settlement astride the River Fleet where it ran into the north bank of the River Thames , the River Fleet was about two hundred yards wide at that junction . |
| 21 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
| 22 | It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time , perhaps even since it had been laid to rest . |
| 23 | They also tend to remain positive for a very long time , if not indefinitely , unless the infection has been treated in the very early stages . |
| 24 | If the farmer could eliminate all other factors and concentrate only on managing his leys ( and the soil on which they grow ) he might succeed in minimizing the effect of the ‘ years of depression ’ and maintain the new grasses and clovers for a very long time . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think I shall want to see Dorothy — sister though she is — for a very long time ! ’ |
| 26 | He managed to stay off alcohol because for the first time for a very long time he was truly afraid . |
| 27 | However , whenever they might have been emparked , it seems that the colour pattern had been established in Britain for a very long time indeed . |
| 28 | The breed originated from the Jutland Black Pied , which was known a century ago as a hardier but less productive type of the black pied lowland group and had been bred in Denmark for a very long time . |
| 29 | ‘ When you 've been very independent for a very long time , to depend on somebody else is n't easy , I find . |
| 30 | ‘ Doses would remain large for a very long time … |