Example sentences of "[prep] [art] long time as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was sitting there with his head in his hands ; he did not rise when the train passed ; he made no movement ; he did not give a glance at the signs I made him ; and for a long time as the train was carrying me away , I watched his little motionless , grief-stricken figure , lost in the desert , an image of my own despair . |
| 2 | This very high degree of risk has been maintained for a long time as many studies over the past thirty years have shown . |
| 3 | These positions are then pre-empted for a long time as the incumbents have many years to go before retirement . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Alice was understandably puzzled , saying , ‘ Well in our country you 'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we 've been doing . ’ |
| 6 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |
| 7 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |