Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] long time " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Sir , we have been seeking his permission for a long time ; he will not give it . |
2 | Their new gas plants will not be on stream for several years ; they need a secure , well-priced coal contract for a long time to come . |
3 | It is also our intention — this differs from what has been the case for a long time — that they will be fully manned units . |
4 | He had n't had a clothing parcel for a long time . |
5 | A wall that has been damp will often contain moisture for a long time after the cause has been remedied , so it is better to allow the walls to dry out naturally , although anti-damp paint could be used to allow the room to be decorated before the wall has dried out . |
6 | They must know it 's been going on at domestic and international level for a long time . |
7 | We discuss the abortion struggle for a long time . |
8 | Been my major struggle for a long time now . |
9 | But his parents ' place in Hemlock Road was their base for a long time . |
10 | We had a stable rate base for a long time and we saw no reason to doubt that there was anything untoward in the ratings that had been made within our borough . |
11 | And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save . |
12 | A discrete block of land may have been in existence for a long time before it was first described in a written document . |
13 | The first 4 of these have been in existence for a long time . |
14 | Masked by the cold war , it has in practice fulfilled that function for a long time . |
15 | He had been standing in the kitchen for a long time . |
16 | They played rummy with Patsy in the kitchen for a long time because Mother and Father went across the road to Dr and Mrs Johnson 's house . |
17 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
18 | She 's got our number all right an' we 'll 'ave to give this place a miss for a long time after this . |
19 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
20 | He must have saved up his pocket money for a long time in order to buy one of Uncle Philip 's masks . |
21 | Then suddenly he sees Piquet go into a spin and does n't get back into the field for a long time . |
22 | The snag is , scientists do not yet know whether patients taking the drug for a long time are better off with a little testosterone , or none . |
23 | He sat over breakfast in a cafeteria for a long time , reading the Sunday papers . |
24 | Although out of action for a long time , an internal iron water wheel survives . |
25 | The final French losses were seven ships of the line , with about 2500 men killed in action or drowned , and another four vessels , trapped in the Vilaine , unfit for action for a long time . |
26 | But after being knocked out in the first round of the English Derby the dog injured a hind muscle and was out of action for a long time . |
27 | Ryan 's proposal for a program for automatic story generation which fulfils her three criteria of creativity , aesthetic awareness and understanding will probably remain beyond the boundaries of feasibility for a long time , but it does demonstrate both the need for a greater contribution of ideas from poetics and narratology to developments in artificial intelligence , and the insights that can be gained from the attempt to shape one 's ideas about narrative into a form that can be learnt and applied by computers . |
28 | well those people have them in stock for a long time |
29 | and manager Smith plans to be at the Manor for a long time too … he 's brushed away speculation about going to Stoke … he 's happy at Oxford … well he will be when they start winning |
30 | Most sufferers do n't realise their chiggers have departed because the eschars remain itchy for a long time afterwards . |