Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee also recommended that the government clarify the rules covering the supply of heat and energy so that anyone planning a CHP scheme would not need to carry out long negotiations with the electricity industry . |
| 2 | He is not expected to live very long . |
| 3 | Said Ted : ‘ I just want to live as long as possible so that the murderer can be found . ’ |
| 4 | About half of the people detained under Immigration Act powers in general do not wish to challenge the decision that they should leave but they need help winding up their affairs here , contacting their friends and families and pressing the Home Office to process their cases quickly so that they do not have to spend unnecessarily long periods in prison . |
| 5 | She did not have to wait very long to find out . |
| 6 | His theory did not attempt to explain how long waves are generated at the international level or the mechanisms by which national economies ' cyclical movements are linked . |
| 7 | ‘ And you do n't want to wait that long for an identity parade ? ’ |
| 8 | Well I did n't have to wait too long for you today . |
| 9 | He had n't meant to sit so long by himself . |
| 10 | I have even managed to persist so long that the final work on an article was dealt with by the third editor , but that owed something to my delays as well . |