Example sentences of "[conj] for a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He loved life , and for a long time the force was with him . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | I attended the funeral and for a long time afterwards we , as a family , used to take flowers to the grave . |
| 34 | Suss collaborated at Clara Mosch from 1977 to 1982 and for a long time worked with coloured linocuts . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | He looked at the photo , and then he looked at Carl carefully and for a long time . |
| 42 | It was as easy as anything , and for a long time I , I felt well at least I can get in that way and then I thought oh maybe I should , you know doing , doing anything about it , but now I always go out of the other door |
| 43 | Before 18 months , a child wo n't recognise herself in the mirror and for a long time will describe herself in terms of attributes ( like smallness ) and her possessions . |
| 44 | German scholarship had done little to add to , and nothing to disrupt , the traditional European pattern of " philology " , as the study of classical antiquity was widely called ( and for a long time continued to be called ) . |
| 45 | Finally her arms went gently round his waist , and for a long time they sat there , while he listened to the sounds of the party , and felt — against his side , and within the perimeter his arm made around her — the gentle ebb and flow of her breath , Please , please , do n't come now , Mrs Hunter . |
| 46 | It happened almost overnight and for a long time nobody even heard of him . ’ |
| 47 | There is of course no need to be unduly alarmed at these discrepancies ; we should reflect that any normal language presents numerous instances where certain recalcitrant items refuse to fit into a generally acceptable pattern ( e.g. for no very obvious reason the " expected " adverbs difficultly and longly are not accepted in English and have to be replaced by the phrases with difficulty and for a long time . ) |
| 48 | But , before he was able to put a name to it , something hit him on the back of the head , and for a long time he knew no more . |
| 49 | Afterwards she clung to him , the tears wet on her cheeks , and for a long time they lay together in silence as the light of the October evening faded around them . |
| 50 | Luce buried her face against Michele 's neck and for a long time they sat without moving or speaking . |
| 51 | I hid it from everyone , ’ he said , when her brows rose in surprise , ‘ and for a long time I hid it from myself . |
| 52 | One might call this ‘ applied phonology ’ ; however , the phonological analysis of different languages raises a great number of difficult and interesting theoretical problems , and for a long time the study of phonology ‘ for its own sake ’ has been regarded as an important area of theoretical linguistics . |
| 53 | Yes , I think that the crucial thing that 's emerging , especially from the area of artificial intelligence , is that we 're beginning to understand that what the name of the game is getting people to express their intentions , and for a long time we 've been , as it were , stuck in languages that do n't really help you to do that and we 're really beginning to understand now that erm what people are doing when they program indeed , I mean as it were the ace programmers , are expressing their intention for whatever 's to be done in the task the computer 's to perform clearly . |
| 54 | She taught briefly in schools in Liverpool , Oban , and Eastbourne , and for a longer period in Tunbridge Wells , but eventually returned to Inverness to keep house for her invalid father , whom she outlived by only two years . |
| 55 | The models were also approached more closely and for a longer duration when presented with large crests ( female responses : for closest approach , log-likelihood ratio G =63.8 , d.f . |
| 56 | Wordsworth continues to watch , but for a long time the figure refuses to move . |
| 57 | Probably the original intention was merely to contrast the procedure with that of a public inquiry ( where , of course , the inquiry is in full view of the public ) but for a long time the bogy of officials beavering away in private and then producing a report which damned some poor individual or organisation , without those officials being in any way accountable , was viewed with grave suspicion . |
| 58 | But for a long time , that was the only contact between us . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | In the modern Hebrew Bible all numbers are written out in full , but for a long time the text was written without vowels . |