Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [art] long time " in BNC.
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1 | Another super-domestique of great experience is Sean Yates from Sussex , who has won a long time trial stage in the tour . |
2 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
3 | The pyramid has taken a long time to crumble . |
4 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
5 | ‘ It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added . |
6 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
7 | It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived . |
8 | It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement . |
9 | Such a measure has taken a long time to appear . |
10 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
11 | ‘ She has waited a long time for rest . |
12 | Clough has waited a long time for a decent run to establish himself after more than two years as squad makeweight . |
13 | But once again this ‘ temporary ’ extension of power and influence has lasted a long time , and the relative weighting of Diet , Cabinet , Bureaucracy and Judiciary remains a debated issue . |
14 | ‘ For one who intends to stay a long time with us , Englishman , you know little of us . |
15 | Citing cases , though usually a necessary part of the moot , tends to take a long time and to be boring for the audience . |
16 | During an , a very intensive training and organization period in the United States during the first half of nineteen forty three , and that does sound a long time ago , er we er the Three-Ninetieth Bomb Group , under the able direction of Colonel , er arrived at Parham , right here , in July nineteen forty three . |
17 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
18 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
19 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |
20 | I know he 's had a long time out with injury but he must be all right now or he would n't be playing . ’ |
21 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |