Example sentences of "[conj] for a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Using drugs can be dangerous , especially when they 're taken in excess or for a long time , or in the wrong combinations . |
| 3 | Right , so that 's a brief gallop the the various issues in the short stories , does anyone want to er , speak now , or for a long time , hold your peace . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , and the reason we 've got no morals is that for a long time ( 150 years ) we 've been at a loose end . ' |
| 5 | The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them . |
| 6 | Miss Picon and her husband were so profoundly affected by their experiences that for a long time after their return to New York they were unable to work . |
| 7 | Another legacy of the French period of broadcasting is the fact that for a long time few such stations broadcast in African languages : radio services in the Ivory Coast are dominated by the French language even today . |
| 8 | ‘ I wished that for a long time , Lizzy , but your father has a different approach to life . ’ |
| 9 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 10 | But it has been a rough 18 months for him and there is still a gauntness about him , even if he does claim he has never felt fitter and that his swing is closer to being ‘ on track ’ than for a long time . |
| 11 | In time Michael too came to accept their centrality , although for a long time he asked when he could go home to his parents . |
| 12 | Nevertheless conditions in which limited but often intense urban nationalism would flourish were being created and would provide a catalyst of future revolution ; although for a long time fears that educated Vietnamese would rise up against their French masters were certainly not encouraged by the numbers of children in school . |
| 13 | It seems as certain as anything can be that the absolute numbers of the old , and for a long time also their number relative to the whole population , will be far higher in future than anything experienced in the past . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He admired the company 's pre-war products — efficient little sports cars with something of the modern Lotus spirit about them — more than any other car , and for a long time he used Astons on the road . |
| 16 | It was the most exciting , extraordinary experience he had ever had , and for a long time afterwards he would bend any ear he could find on the subject . |
| 17 | It is a house which has given rise to much aesthetic conjecture , and for a long time it was deemed to be the first seed of the modern movement in England , for it did not appear to be built in any revival style , but in a fresh new one . |
| 18 | With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid . |
| 19 | For me , a century later , it was to be Oxfordshire again , and for a long time to come . |
| 20 | He loved life , and for a long time the force was with him . |
| 21 | Because she was physically worse after the operation than before it , Rose was convinced that the doctors had made a mistake , and for a long time she wanted to sue them . |
| 22 | I attended the funeral and for a long time afterwards we , as a family , used to take flowers to the grave . |
| 23 | Suss collaborated at Clara Mosch from 1977 to 1982 and for a long time worked with coloured linocuts . |
| 24 | Eventually , the bloody turf wars ceased , and for a long time the authorities either winked at their illegal trade or even helped themselves to the till . |
| 25 | Nonetheless , democratic elitists emphasize that centralization of resource distribution and even policy control has developed in parallel with a continuing ( and for a long time expanding ) role for sub-national governments as agents of policy implementation . |
| 26 | My husband thought they were a failure and felt embarrassed about them , and for a long time he would n't let me see them . |
| 27 | The colour given will be a sort of red , not unlike that of mahogany ; and by afterwards oiling the chair and rubbing it well , and for a long time , with woollen cloths , the veins and shading of elm will be rendered conspicuous . |
| 28 | But she had been forbidden by her mother to have anything to do with her Pascoe cousins , and she was sure Tristram was under the same veto as far as she was concerned ; and for a long time — years — she had never even spoken a word to him . |
| 29 | But Joseph had always been very devoted to any local news and for a long time the talk of the town had been the Cockermouth man — Fletcher Christian 's — Mutiny . |
| 30 | He looked at the photo , and then he looked at Carl carefully and for a long time . |