Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he admits : ‘ It is not normal for the Spanish people to leave the place where you were born for long spells . |
| 2 | It was a more profound unpredictability , in spite of the fact that probably a good proportion of workers were employed for long periods of their lives by a single employer . |
| 3 | It has been alleged by the director of a management investigation company that telephones in Transport House , then the headquarters of the Labour Party and still the headquarters of the TGWU , were tapped for long periods during 1972 , a time of union opposition to the Industrial Relations Act 1971 . |
| 4 | The other 20 men and 10 women started antihypertensive medication at mean ages of 35.5 and 40.8 years respectively ; many patients were observed for long periods before starting medication , especially in the early 1970s . |
| 5 | No market research informed Laura that women were thirsting for long dresses which they could not find . |
| 6 | All were controlled for long periods with endoscopic treatment altough it is possible that obstruction contributed to death in one patient . |
| 7 | The campaign was fought for long periods with all the strategic sense of an exhausted boxer launching haymakers from the ropes . |
| 8 | In medieval Europe and Islam , for example , the monetary stability of the coinage was adjudged paramount and consequently the same design was retained for long periods to maintain public confidence and implicitly offer reassurance about the unchanging quality of the coinage ; we have already noted in Chapter 2 the same sort of attitude in Athens during the fifth and fourth centuries BC ( see figs. 9 and 3 ) . |