Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a long time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Not going to school , and having to pretend I did n't live on the island all the time , has meant that I did n't grow up with anybody of my own age ( except Eric , of course , but even he was away for a long time ) , and about the time I was thinking of venturing further afield and getting to know more people Eric went crazy , and things got a bit uncomfortable in the town for a while . |
| 32 | It was a horrific crime and I hope the two thugs who did it can be apprehended and sent away for a long time . ’ |
| 33 | Anyone who is stupid enough to try and derail a train should be locked away for a long time . |
| 34 | He is a union member and he was aware of all the advantages of belonging to a union but somehow for a long time it never occurred to me how to get it all started , how it was possible . |
| 35 | In the gravityless environment of the hulk any unexploded bolts or similar projectiles could ricochet unpredictably for a long time within a confined space . |
| 36 | Their syllabus should include , on a reading list that would hopefully keep them indoors for a long time , the extensive article published in Mountain dealing with the affair . |
| 37 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 38 | Er what sort of relationship did you have with with the men , did you er particularly thinking that you you were still for a long time after that , the the branch secretary of the union as well you know . |
| 39 | Not too long ago , Colonel and a new present commander of the Three-Ninetieth Strategic Missile Wing agreed to establish a memorial , a heritage programme between the Bomb Group veterans and the Strategic Missile Wing people erm hopefully for a long time to come . |
| 40 | They were told a carefully graduated series of lies : first that their mother was staying in hospital for a while , then that she might not come home for a long time , and finally that she might never come back . |
| 41 | It was very good very very good for women that have been home for a long time and want to get their confidence back . |
| 42 | Mary was still a good looking woman and Sid had admired her from afar for a long time . |
| 43 | Similarly , we can say that the purchase of a new machine by a firm is investment — the machine itself will not yield utility to anyone in the current period but will produce ( or help to produce ) consumer goods probably for a long time into the future . |
| 44 | ‘ I suppose , ’ said Suvarov , paying no attention to her rudeness or the incipient hysteria in her voice , ‘ because it was so important … not just fighting it , but being part of it , doing one 's best and living more intensely over a longer time than one had before . ’ |
| 45 | Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus . |
| 46 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time , ’ he told the ever-comforting Jones , ‘ and shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time and I shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 48 | Alice was understandably puzzled , saying , ‘ Well in our country you 'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we 've been doing . ’ |
| 49 | It was a leafy place ; professional people , merchants , senior civil servants had lived around here for a long time . |
| 50 | Then she said , quietly , ‘ Yes , although I have n't been here for a long time . |
| 51 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 52 | I hope to stay here for a long time . ’ |
| 53 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 54 | I mean there , there are a lot of people , of people in who have lived here for a long time , and lived here ever since they were born . |
| 55 | ‘ That woman friend of the boss who clings to his arm in the moonlight — do you think she will stay here for a long time ? ’ |
| 56 | Opposition Back-Bench Members have been questioning my right hon. and hon. Friends and myself on the basis that we shall be here for a long time , whereas Front-Bench spokesmen still nurse the occasional illusion . |
| 57 | The hon. Gentleman must forgive me : I want to be fair to other hon. Members who have been here for a long time . |
| 58 | He 'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time . |
| 59 | It means so much to the supporters in the Oxford area , it means so much to the club , I think you 've really got to be up here for a long time to realise just how much it does mean to everybody in this area . |
| 60 | Dishonest borrowings , even for a long time , are not theft . |