Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the , what has happened I think , over the last two and half years , that I 'm aware of , erm , is basically happening a long time before that , I , I ca n't say yes or no . |
| 2 | Since it necessarily takes a long time to produce such a report , the mandatory period within which the legal claim should be registered has frequently , even usually , expired before the report is available . |
| 3 | The proteins have little sequence identity and obviously diverged a long time ago . |
| 4 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
| 5 | However , the seeds had been sown in my mind — they just took a long time to grow ! |
| 6 | it 's just taking a long time . |
| 7 | You 're not old nan you 've just lived a long time |
| 8 | Still takes a long time to chew . |
| 9 | Bernie Ecclestone , however , feels guardedly optimistic , ‘ It always takes a long time to get an F1 race up and running in the US , ’ he said . |
| 10 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 11 | Well it 's always takes a long time . |
| 12 | Erm , I was going to mention , as Rob has done the increase in new complaints , which I think is somewhat welcome erm , we 're still taking a long time from the averages over the last twelve months , I think that 's just reflecting being out some days over the ones you 've been talking about , er , we 're down on actual stage one equipments in the month erm , we 're not quite sure why that is , mm it 's just the way things have panned out . |
| 13 | Our prospective visitor bowed to the inevitable and wrote to us : ‘ Owing to procedure for obtaining a visa usually taking a long time it seems impossible to start our work at the date you suggested . |
| 14 | She had always taken a long time over her toilet : a review of her clothes ; a long-drawn-out bath ; massage ; manicure ; then her hair and make-up . |
| 15 | Not only do books often tend to be rather broad in their approach to a subject , but they can also take a long time to be published after they are written and the information may thus be out of date . |
| 16 | It 's the same sort of factor that allows anybody who smokes a lot to not get cancer and not get bronchitis and live , also live a long time . |
| 17 | For instance , a workman may be injured by a chip of metal flying off a hammer which had been negligently manufactured a long time before . |
| 18 | In a big house it often takes a long time for everyone to find ‘ Smee ’ . |
| 19 | Also the fragility of the grammar — there are a number of features that are not covered by the grammar and it often takes a long time to reject the sentence . |
| 20 | From April 1987 to now seems a long time , but the barren spell seems over . |
| 21 | We often take a long time to hear of what is going on in the outside world and when we do find out , it can take even longer to get into the field . |
| 22 | ‘ They often take a long time . |
| 23 | Victims frequently took a long time to die , often very unpleasantly . |
| 24 | Bladder control at night sometimes happens a long time after control in the day , and as with daytime training , it 's best to wait until a child shows signs of being able to develop control . |
| 25 | The two drawbacks were that it initially took a long time to get into , and it was hot — the first problem was solved , the second not . |
| 26 | I do n't know when this story started but it certainly happened a long time ago . |
| 27 | St Catherine 's Dock was busy as a Hogarth etching and smelt as if something should have been quietly buried a long time ago . |
| 28 | He was certainly in Italy before Narses died in 574 , and he subsequently spent a long time in Constantinople . |