Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a long time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Formed in teams , this task it was then to er across the practice areas whose task it was to get into those clients , get to know them , get to know their industry , get to know the people and find ways in which we could actually penetrate them and er open doors and that was going to take a long time and it is taking a long time . |
| 32 | It 's going to take a long time yet . |
| 33 | That 's going to take a long time . |
| 34 | We have come to realize that many of us will not see the improvements in our quality of life , as this is going to take a long time . |
| 35 | All the artistes were in England , but the staff were in New York , and to get money and to get certain things that we needed to do took a long time . |
| 36 | Or , if you like to spend a long time in the tub , you might like a wider one , which may well fit into the existing space . |
| 37 | ‘ Then they may have to wait a long time . |
| 38 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 39 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |
| 40 | The libel laws should be changed to provide a ‘ fast track ’ system allowing victims of media falsehoods to correct them quickly without having to wait a long time for their cases to go to court and gamble on the result . |
| 41 | But there are particular areas like this , you having to wait a long time and if you come into the building to go and see a film and you 've you 've left an hour to , to have some food you , you really should n't be missing the film because |
| 42 | Over 900 of them said : ‘ It should have come a long time ago — very few people have done more for charity , public service and their Party than you have ’ . |
| 43 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 44 | However , the " Big Book " of Alcoholics Anonymous , written a mere four years after the birth of that Fellowship , says " to be gravely affected , one does not necessarily have to drink a long time , nor take the quantities some of us have . " |
| 45 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 46 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 47 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 48 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
| 49 | Was it easier for them was it easy for them to pick up work or would they have been woul would they have to face a long time on the dole or ? |
| 50 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 51 | It must have taken a long time . |
| 52 | The hurt itself may have happened a long time ago , and may even be something that you have forgotten all about . |
| 53 | cos it 'd have to take a long time . |
| 54 | It does n't have to take a long time , it 's up to us here and now . |
| 55 | It took Rauschning a long time to realise that his standpoint was exactly opposite to Forster 's . |
| 56 | Those normal , straightforward girls are part ofa society that she chose to leave a long time ago . |
| 57 | They 're , and they 're very good and they , they tend to stay a long time . |
| 58 | This is a wonderful place — but I do n't want to stay a long time . |
| 59 | When you decide to practise , do not choose a difficult water , or difficult fish , where you are likely to have to wait a long time for a bite . |
| 60 | In fact I 'd started caddying a long time before that , carrying golf-bags instead of delivering papers or milk for pocket-money . |