Example sentences of "[art] [adv] long time and " in BNC.
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1 | All you need to do is to be sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time and and his mates will turn around and throw up their hands and shak and and turn somersaults . |
2 | The 'phone rang for a very long time and when Mrs Pettifer eventually answered she sounded quite put out . |
3 | Like all other departments we have been established a very long time and therefore have the experience and the knowledge in dealing with lettings . |
4 | Her face looked anguished as if she had been secretly angry and victimized for a very long time and it was just beginning to seep out . |
5 | Flowers such as strelitzias , anthuriums and orchids last a very long time and are well worth taking home — some flower shops will pack them specially for export . |
6 | Whilst they are very good at what they do , they 've also been riding the same horse for a very long time and the old nag 's starting to show signs of wear . |
7 | This is something that 's been on my mind for a very long time and I mean , I , I , I think it 's about time we started getting rid of these things and updating our own toilets you know . |
8 | ‘ It 's easy to edit now electronically , but in those days , where editing was done by looking down a microscope for a metal ink pulse , cutting the tape physically with a guillotine and then joining edges together with sticky tape , it took a very long time and could be very wasteful . ’ |
9 | The Mass and Vespers nicely illustrate the stylistic dichotomy of church music which was to last for a very long time and which Monteverdi had already distinguished in the foreword to his Fifth Book of madrigals as prima and seconda pratica . |
10 | Woodland has , therefore , been managed for a very long time and we shall examine this further in a moment . |
11 | Some things are going to have to last you a very long time and withstand a great deal of wear so these must be the best of their kind that you can possibly afford . |
12 | I mean I was the on I was the only black guy in the regiment erm for a very long time and erm you know it did n't it does n't matter what colour you are erm apart from my case , there was if you was erm if you were slow on your runs or you was n't good at at cleaning your kit you would get bullied . |
13 | His name had n't been mentioned in the Stevens household for a very long time and Rachel assumed that they all thought he was still abroad . |
14 | Well , I shall need a lot of persuasion to change my mind , but I 've known Edward for a very long time and we 're good friends . |
15 | ‘ Many people with this disease are able to continue to work for a very long time and there is no evidence to suggest that her condition and the error are necessarily linked . ’ |
16 | I mean when I wrote this book of bible poems in fact it took me a very long time and I started all sorts of subjects which I did n't finish , so , no , you have to be obedient to whether the poem intends to get written or not . |
17 | It seemed to take an unreasonably long time and much bad temper , evasion and deliberate obfuscation , together with consultation of a diary that appeared to be alternately blank and covered with scribbled hieroglyphics . |
18 | So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway . |