Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for Ben Hunt ; his passion for motorbikes started a long time ago . |
| 2 | After all , these things happened a long time ago . |
| 3 | While some customers took a long time to make decisions , other very complicated projects took longer than anticipated to organise . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The girls spent a long time putting their new wardrobe together . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The unpacking of the car and the packing and preparing of sledges took a long time . |
| 8 | Men lived a long time on Tarvaras . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But many of the boys took a long time to get over their paralysed state . |
| 13 | She was always rushing off to the Housing Applicant Office and the interviews took a long time . |
| 14 | Those seven miles took a long time , but we worked a few things out . |