Example sentences of "[verb] a long time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk . |
| 2 | It seemed a long time since she had stood there watching the boats and noticing how brief lack of caution led to trouble . |
| 3 | It seemed a long time since Dana 's phone call had brought Roman Wyatt into her life and she badly needed to be by herself to think about the turmoil he had caused in her ordered existence . |
| 4 | It seemed a long time since the small breakfast that was served in Spain , and in the end Felipe put a portion of each on her plate . |
| 5 | The part of her story about the pressure of Government cuts was true , and it seemed a long time since she 'd existed in a world that was n't penny-pinching . |
| 6 | It seemed a long time before the railway lines began to shake , and they heard the train coming . |
| 7 | It seemed a long time before anyone answered and she felt rather stupid standing there with the bottles . |
| 8 | It seemed a long time before footsteps came along the hall , the door was pushed wider and Guy appeared with an armful of logs . |
| 9 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 10 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 13 | Hard disks last a long time but they do n't last for ever . |
| 14 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |
| 15 | Sage , rosemary and lavender need no visual description , though it is not always realized that sage has spikes of vividly blue-mauve flowers which last a long time and are highly magnetic to bees . |
| 16 | The stitching takes a long time and hurts Stig a lot more than it hurts the rest of us . |
| 17 | This takes a long time and is reflected in the price of the product . |
| 18 | Hyperactive children may ‘ grow out of it ’ in time , but this takes a long time and their behaviour tends to get worse before it gets better . |
| 19 | The legal process takes a long time and the task of getting new Regulations approved remained incomplete when I retired . |
| 20 | But this takes a long time and a lot of convincing . |
| 21 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 22 | I think it will take a long time before I could go out on my own , ’ Mr Norrie added . |
| 23 | It , it 'll take a long time before it starts to buck up . |
| 24 | ‘ Developing a single European currency will take a long time but it will make the most significant contribution to European , and therefore world , financial stability . |
| 25 | Now the trouble with fractions is if you do n't know your tables it can be you can work it out you could get there but it 'll take a long time if you do know your tables you just go , Yeah three fours are twelve . |
| 26 | Shoelaces are difficult ; most five-year-olds manage to tie them , but it 'll take a long time if the only practice she gets is actually putting on the shoes each morning . |
| 27 | Reconciling yourself to making the final decision can take a long time and be very painful . |
| 28 | Defending a petition can take a long time and be expensive . |
| 29 | It rang a long time before a woman 's voice answered — the same woman . |
| 30 | It seems a long time since a general book on this theme appeared in English , and John Whitehead 's provides an all-round introduction . |