Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [art] long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ascending its professional hierarchies takes a long time . |
| 2 | But for Ben Hunt ; his passion for motorbikes started a long time ago . |
| 3 | Single gas instantaneous water heaters have their place alongside a storage system ; the main problem with relying on a gas multi-point heater to provide all the house 's hot water is the low flow rate which means baths take a long time to fill . |
| 4 | It was September , when the days take a long time to wake up and the green of the trees is brushed with gold . |
| 5 | A CAB interview with scant attention to emotional problems is generally lengthy because forms are complex ; because benefit calculations take a long time ; because contacting the Department of Social Security on the telephone takes even longer and calculating an equitable distribution of debt repayments longer still . |
| 6 | After all , these things happened a long time ago . |
| 7 | While some customers took a long time to make decisions , other very complicated projects took longer than anticipated to organise . |
| 8 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 9 | ‘ The pace of life is slow there — things take a long time in changing . |
| 10 | But some memories take a long time to go … especially when they 're being preserved by Historical enthusiasts . |
| 11 | We have asked to do so , but changes take a long time to come into effect . |
| 12 | For one thing they are not really cultivated , mostly because the trees take a long time to bear fruit and even then are not very prolific . |
| 13 | Since ch'i occupies the place in Chinese cosmology corresponding to matter in ours , Westerners took a long time to grasp how very different it is from what we understand by matter . |
| 14 | The girls spent a long time putting their new wardrobe together . |
| 15 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 16 | The unpacking of the car and the packing and preparing of sledges took a long time . |
| 17 | But he knows that new formats take a long time to catch on with the public : ‘ We have n't got expectations of hundreds of thousands of units . |
| 18 | Men lived a long time on Tarvaras . |
| 19 | She agrees with Gnome Pfeiffer ( coauthor of The Experience of Infertility , Virago ) that feminists took a long time to put infertility on the political agenda , and she suggests that this is partly due to attitudes toward motherhood . |
| 20 | However , it is necessary to emphasise that exploration of materials such as sand , clay , soil and wood for sheer delight , without the intervention of an adult , is extremely important and for some children lasts a long time . |
| 21 | But human beings discovered a long time ago that if the birds were taken away from their homes , they had an uncanny ability to return even across miles of territory that was totally unknown to them . |
| 22 | I was in command of a heavily laden Stirling which was renowned for the fact that on a cold night the engines took a long time , even with the grills closed , to warm up . |
| 23 | But many of the boys took a long time to get over their paralysed state . |
| 24 | The box and pyrotechnics take a long time to set up , so we ca n't rehearse and have to hope it will be all right on the night . |
| 25 | The climatic extremes of the far north mean that forests take a long time to regenerate . |
| 26 | To build up an impression of how metal use developed , many and various artefacts covering a long time span need to be examined . |
| 27 | Hard disks last a long time but they do n't last for ever . |
| 28 | She was always rushing off to the Housing Applicant Office and the interviews took a long time . |
| 29 | Those seven miles took a long time , but we worked a few things out . |
| 30 | As you now from your own experience , such events take a long time to plan , and the hope is that it will all come together on the day ! |