Example sentences of "[adj] for [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The organization 's market share had been relatively stable for a long time and even growing in concert with the growth in world economies . |
2 | Of course , some sort of pattern can be teased out of the most disordered subject though it may take half a dozen attempts before a pictorial structure emerges ; such an unhurried approach is not always possible for the long distance traveller . |
3 | It would not have been possible for the long progression towards the perfect physical being , to have ever occurred at all , if it were encumbered by the constraints of compassion , an emotion which , by the very nature of evolution was completely non-existent before the dawn of civilisation . |
4 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
5 | You 've been asleep for a long time . ’ |
6 | ‘ But I tried being polite for a long time , Aunt Ruth , and it got me nowhere . |
7 | Grown in impoverished conditions , the plant becomes stunted but remains alive for a long time while many small shoots develop to give the appearance of an irregularly worn shaving-brush . |
8 | you ai n't blushed like that for a long while have you ? , yeah , that will be a holiday , watch your camp bed do n't fold up love |
9 | Have n't had that for a long while |
10 | ‘ He 's not been like that for a long time . ’ |
11 | And … and I 've known that for a long time . ’ |
12 | Yes , I 've known that for a long time . |
13 | " I know , " Patrick said defiantly , realizing what she was trying to do , " I 've known that for a long time . " |
14 | I have n't seen that for a long time |
15 | At night we were visited by entrepreneurs in sarongs and Muslim black felt " peci " hats , who knocked so quietly that for a long time we thought they were merely underpowered geckos . |
16 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
17 | Okay you wo n't need to know that for a long time yet anyway will you . |
18 | Charlotte and I sat like that for a long time , remembering . |
19 | Chesarynth concentrated on the maths of it so hard that for a long time she ignored the awareness tugging at her subconscious . |
20 | She had not done that for a long time . |
21 | They stayed like that for a long time , sometimes moving , sometimes still , the hardness of him and the warmth and softness of her blended into one . |
22 | Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time . |
23 | He pulled me to my feet , and flung his arms around me and squeezed me as if he wanted to gather me right into himself , never let me go , and we stayed like that for a long time , not speaking , rocking to and fro . |
24 | They lay like that for a long time . |
25 | He sat like that for a long time . |
26 | He had talked like that for a long time now . |
27 | Yes , yes , she 's , she 's had , she 's had one of those and I have n't seen that for a long time . |
28 | Are n't you playing the piano ? shall we get that book that you have , it 's yellow I think it 's down there , we have n't done that for a long time have we , we can do that while daddy and Tim are playing |
29 | She 'll do that for a long time , I bet . |
30 | They stayed like that for a long moment and then he said , ‘ Light the candle . ’ |