Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masked by the cold war , it has in practice fulfilled that function for a long time . |
| 2 | there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while . |
| 3 | I stood in front of that fence for a long time , trying to reconstruct the presence of that massive Victorian red sandstone building in which I had spent nearly five sevenths of my life for thirty years . |
| 4 | Love and pride shone from her enormous black eyes as , ever tender , she lifted her grandson and held him against her grubby sweater for a long moment before returning him to his crib . |
| 5 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 6 | Indeed , as the indices stubbornly refused to improve , there seemed little prospect that interest rates would not remain at this historically high level for a long period to come . |
| 7 | I think this is a good principle and we hope to continue it , to some degree for a long time yet . ’ |
| 8 | Erm so I do n't think that one 's achievable erm I think what this amounts to is that erm there are two cuts that we do n't agree with er there 's a vast on reserves we do n't agree with but we managed to put forward a thousand pounds for education at the same time erm i this does strike me as a budget of a party which it knows has no prospect of any sort of responsibility in this council for a long time to come . |
| 9 | Neither of the Glovers had used a public telephone for a long while and were astonished to find themselves confronted by a totally unfamiliar contraption . |
| 10 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 11 | The lads were ‘ bang up for it — Talking Heads has been one of our favourite bands for a long time ’ , and another odd musical alliance was struck up , adding to a curious list of collaborations including the Velvet Underground 's John Cale ( who produced ‘ Squirrel And G-Man ’ ) and Donovan ( who supported them on tour ) . |
| 12 | me proper meeting for a long time . |
| 13 | done this job for a long time wo n't you ? |
| 14 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
| 15 | Look wh you 're in this business for a long time , things take an awful long time to happen in this world |
| 16 | British universities for a long time were relatively much more interested in the anthropological investigation of so-called ‘ primitive ’ societies in the more remote areas of the world , and British sociology constituted a relatively minor discipline , centred mainly on the London School of Economics . |
| 17 | But I say , it should 've been it should 've been all d I mean everybody 's known about this chiller for a long while and it 's as I say , I mean when was here it was costing a thousand pound a time . |
| 18 | Ships did not often come down this coast , and I said to myself , ‘ I 'm going to be on this island for a long time . ’ |
| 19 | The profits have been in public relations for a long time but too often those in charge have refused to invest some measure of it in capital equipment that would improve client services and the daily life of their workers . |
| 20 | They would remain stable in this state for a long time as stars like our sun , burning hydrogen into helium and radiating the resulting energy as heat and light . |
| 21 | I 've 'ad this idea for a long time an' if I can get a few customers , we 'll be able ter buy some extra food an' we 'll be able to rent a better 'ouse , with good strong doors not like these rotten ones . ’ |
| 22 | Mm we have n't been through this way for a long time have we ? |
| 23 | On reflection , does my right hon. Friend agree that precious police resources — the figure of £2 million has been mentioned — should not be used on vindictive , Soviet or Israeli-type show trials which are bound to be a travesty of British justice as practised by this country for a long time ? |
| 24 | Whilst it is possible that they will remain reliable instruments for a long time to come , it is in conditions like these that Titoism spawns and prospers . |
| 25 | A shorter trip for a long night out was also organised by friends before he retired with a private coach taking a very large party to Ayr . |
| 26 | ‘ She has worked and planned towards this dual-presidency for a long time . ’ |
| 27 | I 've been looking forward to this visit for a long time for that reason . |
| 28 | Will my hon. Friend also note that , unlike the Liberal party , whose individual members have held this view for a long time , what is most interesting is the view held by senior members of the Liberal Democrat party in Scotland who are now calling for separatism ? |
| 29 | I sat staring at the empty screen for a long time , oblivious of everything around me , including Frejji 's cursing as she struggled with interfield links . |
| 30 | Saying that the council had been pressing the Scottish Office for a long time to commit itself to a new bridge , the administration leader , John MacDougall , said while welcoming their decision , it was vital that the views of users would be taken into account . |