Example sentences of "[verb] [art] long time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is more , much of government expenditure is committed a long time in advance and can not easily be cut . |
| 2 | A small generator can be used primarily to stop a battery discharging and it will only be able to recharge a battery if it is small and has a long time in which to do it . |
| 3 | I sat for what seemed a long time in the cold darkness , breathing shallowly , not moving at all , just waiting , and eventually there was a lightening of the shadows and a luminosity in the wood , and the moon rose clear and bright in the east . |
| 4 | Those people whose first job on leaving unemployment was a " temporary " one were more likely to suffer multiple spells of unemployment , to hold many jobs , to experience a longer time in unemployment and a shorter time in employment over the 20 months following their initial registration than those whose first job was a " permanent " one [ see Tables 4.3.5 ] . |
| 5 | You can stay a long time in neutral , ticking over — provided nothing happens . |
| 6 | She spent a long time in the bathroom . |
| 7 | He was certainly in Italy before Narses died in 574 , and he subsequently spent a long time in Constantinople . |
| 8 | ‘ It 'll take a long time in the courts , wo n't it , though ? ’ |
| 9 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 10 | I personally and I 'm sure it goes for many here , have spent a long time in the private rented sector and if the opportunity existed to get into council housing we would have taken it . |
| 11 | He is absent yet meticulous , paying for a missing drink-shop teaspoon which has nothing to do with him , and spending a long time in the ‘ interesting occupation ’ of trying to catch a fly . |
| 12 | She had done another paragraph before it occurred to her that he was taking a long time in Georgina 's office . |
| 13 | It seemed to Lefevre that the splash took a long time in coming . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Although the Laputans were kind to me , I did not want to spend a long time in their country . |
| 16 | She waited a long time in a small office , but after an hour a policeman came into the room . |
| 17 | ‘ The pace of life is slow there — things take a long time in changing . |
| 18 | WHATEVER its origin , groundwater spends a long time in an aquifer . |
| 19 | The train stood a long time in Gloucester Road station , for no apparent reason . |