Example sentences of "[prep] a long time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was awful , Guy , ’ she whispered , after a long time when neither of them moved or spoke . |
| 2 | For Alton , Mike Lake found some improved form after a long time out with injury , to come 899th in 50 mins , 05 secs . |
| 3 | I mean Stephen is a heck of a long time ago , he 's the very first martyr , and we although we celebrate his feast day still on December the twenty sixth because he is the first martyr , he 's quite a long way away . |
| 4 | So if somebody gets H I , yes , because gets , takes out a policy at twenty five , gets diagnosed H I V at thirty , and they 're still living , they have n't actually got full blown aids , and they can live for a hell of a long time afterwards , they 're paying their W O P premium for a long , long time . |
| 5 | It all seemed like a long time ago , but actually it was only this morning . |
| 6 | The first is that with another ten years of John Paul 's rule , the silencing of awkward bishops and theologians , the appointment to the episcopate of a most carefully selected team of neo-conservatives , a rather traditionalist form of Catholicism will , in fact , harden and remain for a long time effectively unchangeable . |
| 7 | Watching the Trooper disappear up the road , I reckon it could go on trooping for a long time yet at the right price , with very little needing doing . |
| 8 | I think this is a good principle and we hope to continue it , to some degree for a long time yet . ’ |
| 9 | He would n't want to flee the nest for a long time yet . |
| 10 | ‘ I daresay this knavish lot will be in power for a long time yet . |
| 11 | She 'll be around for a long time yet . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Well , it wo n't be dark for a long time yet . |
| 13 | May he escape the bears for a long time yet . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Okay you wo n't need to know that for a long time yet anyway will you . |
| 16 | ‘ You see , we had n't intended to get married for a long time yet — there being so many drawbacks , ’ she began . |
| 17 | Luke , she knew , would be occupied for a long time yet , drinking coffee with the other women , talking over the day , helping to cement working relationships for the future . |
| 18 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 19 | We are now in a second slump , which will continue for a long time yet , and unemployment is rising . |
| 20 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 21 | Schemes of the same kind were drawn up for the forests of Chute , Pickering and Knaresborough , and in the soke of Somersham within the forest of Huntingdon , which the Attorney-General reported ‘ had not been in use for a long time past . |
| 22 | In the modern age , institutions outside the family have been created to administer public affairs and women were for a long time expressly excluded . |
| 23 | I think he 'd been better for a long time on and off |
| 24 | It seems as certain as anything can be that the absolute numbers of the old , and for a long time also their number relative to the whole population , will be far higher in future than anything experienced in the past . |
| 25 | She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable . |
| 26 | ‘ Bill and I talked about the amniocentesis for a long time tonight , and we 've decided against it . ’ |
| 27 | In a cold fury he stood and sat about for a long time within , twice changing from chair to chair . |
| 28 | They were both quiet for a long time both thinking much the same thing : was such a pretence a way of beginning or would it destroy the might have-been ? |
| 29 | I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground , and we put his body in the grave . |
| 30 | Plants like pansies will flower for longer , but even those that flower for a long time anyway , like African and French marigolds , will look neater and tidier if dead-headed , and the dead flowers will not detract from flowers that are still blooming . |