Example sentences of "[prep] [art] long time [ex0] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a long time there was no sound inside , then the door opened . |
| 2 | For a long time there was a tradition that the mill took its name from a period in 1629 , when The Crown had 610 guns cast for The States General of Holland . |
| 3 | For a long time there has been a choice , but very few seem to have realised it . |
| 4 | For a long time there had been no one else for him because he refused to compromise . |
| 5 | For a long time there were few specialized tradesmen : most farm workers made their own tools and carried out their own running repairs , until the spread of cheaply manufactured iron began to displace wood , and more sophisticated craftsmanship was called for . |
| 6 | It seems an obvious assumption that these relatively simple organisms appeared very early in the history of life , but for a long time there was no proof that they actually did so . |
| 7 | A commonly held example of such an error comes not from neuroscience but from genetics , where for a long time there was a rather simple-minded assumption that the physiology and behaviour of an organism ( its phenotype ) could be arbitrarily divided into two components , one given by the genes , the other by the environment . |
| 8 | For a long time there had been a struggle for supremacy between the established church , the Quakers , the Catholics and the Congregationalists . |
| 9 | For a long time there was silence . |
| 10 | Archbishop Eames said : ‘ I have believed for a long time there is a crying need for the Churches to examine the problem of sectarianism in depth . |