Example sentences of "[noun pl] for a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Patten is looking at plans for a longer school day after a Government probe into 15,000 schools in England found youngsters are not getting enough tuition . |
| 2 | May the Town Crier remain in the very capable hands of the college students and lecturers for a long time to come . |
| 3 | The most interesting result is that it gives quicker search times for a long word list over the 26-way methods . |
| 4 | Young people from working-class backgrounds , for instance , are more likely to spend time with a boy/girl-friend whereas young people from G middle-class backgrounds continue to move around in mixed sex groups for a longer period , perhaps anticipating an extended period of dependence on parents as they head for further or higher education . |
| 5 | She met his eyes for a long while , then nodded . |
| 6 | The maid stared into his eyes for a long moment and then suddenly turned away . |
| 7 | Fand looked her in the eyes for a long moment ; and it was difficult for Ruth to face the utter loneliness of that gaze . |
| 8 | He fondled her between her long legs for a long time , and she remained still for him . |
| 9 | Barry Stewart , defending , said Watson and Paul Cocker had had the offences hanging over their heads for a long time , adding : ‘ It was Darren Cocker 's godfather who was the tragic victim of crime . ’ |
| 10 | Vadinamia has its own ultra-tight security that has been frustrating spies for a long time . |
| 11 | When you round out the aircraft floats for a long way and flies very nose down . |
| 12 | Dogs which have lived in kennels for a long time can be particularly difficult to house-train successfully , although this is helped by the fact that they will only defecate about twice a day . |
| 13 | Hundreds and hundredal arrangements persisted in most areas for a long time , eventually emerging as the administrative units of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ( until 1974 ) . |
| 14 | Nevertheless physicists have known about these effects for a long time ; indeed , measurements of splitting using radio frequency techniques ( with correspondingly low-energy photons ) provided the first direct evidence of non-spherical nuclei . |
| 15 | Certainly schools will not be handling such retrieval techniques in the present economic circumstances for a long time yet ; though a service to teachers and educational researchers is offered in the United States ( and is available here in some libraries ) by the ERIC system , which provides micro-copies of research papers together with a tolerably thorough indexing system which can be computerized for quick search . |
| 16 | Community development workers , on the other hand , have been interested in health matters for a long time . |
| 17 | I am chairman of the Africa committee of the British Refugee Council , so I have worked closely with refugees for a long time . |
| 18 | The lads were ‘ bang up for it — Talking Heads has been one of our favourite bands for a long time ’ , and another odd musical alliance was struck up , adding to a curious list of collaborations including the Velvet Underground 's John Cale ( who produced ‘ Squirrel And G-Man ’ ) and Donovan ( who supported them on tour ) . |
| 19 | Two CDU politicians , in comments seen as trial balloons for a longer debate , argued at the weekend that Bonn 's laws should allow dual citizenship to extend full rights to foreigners living in Germany for decades . |
| 20 | Such questions occupied developmental research workers for a long while , and their results were eventually pulled together in a number of reviews , such as that by Bettye Caldwell . |
| 21 | ‘ They will also prevent me from selling these pieces for a long time to come ’ , he said . |
| 22 | Pat had been attending my classes for a long time — years in fact . |
| 23 | British universities for a long time were relatively much more interested in the anthropological investigation of so-called ‘ primitive ’ societies in the more remote areas of the world , and British sociology constituted a relatively minor discipline , centred mainly on the London School of Economics . |
| 24 | and , cos I said to the dealers for a long time you know do n't put them under stairs , do n't put them in store rooms , they get locked , locked up with vacuum cleaners and you ca n't get to the gear when you go to them , do n't put them high up on the wall we ca n't reach them and they just laugh , but er , I think the last laugh 's on us now cos er if I see one high up on the wall , I say well that , I say we 're not accepting that , you have to move it |
| 25 | The Teleuts , however , had been sovereign in their own domains for a long period before the Russians arrived on the scene . |
| 26 | The festival is also screening POISON , one of the most controversial American films for a long time , which has caused storms of protest in the States and will be a film that has everyone talking . |
| 27 | Have n't eaten pork chops for a long time . |
| 28 | The group left with tearful farewells for Plymouth where they 'll be spread amoung different families for a longer stay . |
| 29 | ‘ You know , I have n't had a look at the things for a long time , ’ Müller remarked . |
| 30 | There was a project to get artists to work on panels for a long wall , concrete posts and lintels with a brick infill , that might be seen as a possible module for paintings or some other art form . |