Example sentences of "[adj] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | In this state it is not unusual for the subject to think that he has not been hypnotized at all , but has simply felt very relaxed for a short time . |
| 32 | Old John Knox had been ill for a long time and , two years after I joined the firm , he was told that he must retire . |
| 33 | Very often I spend long days on my allotment , and cook quite nice dinners of , say , breast of mutton and peas and fruit off the allotment for myself and a [ woman ] friend who has been ill for a long time … . |
| 34 | After all , you really were quite ill for a long time . |
| 35 | But the poor woman had been ill for a long time , although we had not realized it , and died soon after Hareton was born . |
| 36 | He was ill for a long time . |
| 37 | We have a son who still lives at home who in fact has been quite ill for a long time and erm she you know the amount the work she has done therefore has been seriously limited . |
| 38 | ‘ She 'd been ill for a long time . |
| 39 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 40 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 41 | He had been ill for a short time and when uremic poisoning developed , he was moved to a private ward in the Moose Jaw General Hospital . |
| 42 | ‘ War 's been inevitable for a long time , Anne . ’ |
| 43 | These positions are then pre-empted for a long time as the incumbents have many years to go before retirement . |
| 44 | For indeed the demand and supply schedules do not in practice remain unchanged for a long time together , but are constantly being changed ; and every change in them alters the equilibrium amount and the equilibrium price , and thus gives new positions to the centres about which the amount and the price tend to oscillate . [ … ] |
| 45 | ‘ British publishers have had it good for a long time . |
| 46 | Well I do n't know , I think he 's covered up he 's not good for a long time , I did n't know he was that bad . |
| 47 | A down bag will suffer no damage if left compressed for a long time — a synthetic-filled one almost certainly will and this is a serious disadvantage . |
| 48 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 49 | Er there 's a sense also in which memories may not be an individual phenomenon but may be a collective phenomena and if you listen to families reminiscing about things or people who 've know each-other for a long time reminiscing about things , different people supply different details , they contradict one-another , they erm fill things in , they say no it ca n't have been then because um because that was the Christmas when Uncle Sydney had his kidney stones and um y'know stuff like that . |
| 50 | I was very unhappy for a long time after that . |
| 51 | She fell on her head and was unconscious for a long time . |
| 52 | Because the spores are viable for a short time , Laboulbeniales are effectively restricted to arthropod hosts that have overlapping generations , especially in temperate regions ; that is they can not easily establish relations with those insects in which all the adults die at the end of the summer , with the species surviving in the form of larvae or pupae . |
| 53 | ‘ And this man , Leonora , has been celibate for a long time . |
| 54 | Rural groups have been vulnerable for a long time . |
| 55 | He could well have returned late at night and she not heard him , though she had stayed awake for a long time , listening for the sound of the horses , the carriage wheels on the drive . |
| 56 | Hari lay awake for a long time , staring into the darkness . |
| 57 | " It is a woman you will be then , Sara Hussey , " she whispered to herself , and lay awake for a long time after , watching a narrow strip of moonlight creep slowly across the wall . |
| 58 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
| 59 | That night she lay awake for a long time , thinking first of her father , recalling many happy childhood memories and wishing fervently , as she had so many times before , that he had not left her so soon . |
| 60 | She stayed awake for a long time wondering uneasily whether cruelty was a natural part of her character , or whether its expression was merely an aspect of growing up . |