Example sentences of "[det] [verb] for long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite some progress they have done little to compensate for long term NHS underfunding |
| 2 | In the traditional industry , this calls for long landscape backgrounds that the cameraman scrolls with the action — another task in an already exhaustive list . |
| 3 | The minor claim is simply that if you it 's an empirical claim it says if you look at the fossil record , and you look in detail at the changes in the fossils , what you observe is not continuous steady change , but you see what they call stasis — that is nothing much happening for long periods of time , perhaps for millions of years , and then rather suddenly changes taking place . |
| 4 | Because we are realising what television can not admit ; that nothing much happens for long periods of time . |
| 5 | All need annual pruning but many flower for long periods and come in lots of colours . |