Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowd lingers for a long time , until it 's almost dark . |
| 2 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 3 | The last has for a long time been the argument most favoured by political theorists . |
| 4 | For example , it has for a long time been generally accepted by students of organisation that any organisation is likely to need a number of rules and procedures to guide the behaviour of organisational members . |
| 5 | The geographical concentration of the relatively high per capita income services — especially in finance — in London and the South East has for a long time been a feature of the British economy [ Brown , 1972 ] . |
| 6 | Special education has for a long time been fertile ground for curricula based on linear models of learning , guided and assessed through hierarchies of objectives . |
| 7 | Safety , which has for a long time been assumed to be at odds with commercial considerations , is now a business interest . |
| 8 | Given that many of these theories require extremely detailed specifications of grammar rules and lexical entries this has for a long time formed an obstacle to the production of general systems . |
| 9 | High acidity of the duodenal contents has for a long time been found to be associated with gastric metaplasia , both in humans and in laboratory animals . |
| 10 | Organ jazz has for a long time been club-trendy but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and ‘ Big ’ John Patton with whom she shares a clear affinity in her choice of rhythms and blues inflections . |
| 11 | There is no corresponding requirement for bistability , which occurs for , and thus actually benefits from a long time constant , since the gain is : hence materials such as semiconductors and liquid crystals with small are ideal for bistability but useless for Ikeda instability . |
| 12 | However , this source suffers from the long time gap between censuses , and so more detailed and more frequent information on changing land use within the forest still has to rely on ad hoc surveys . |
| 13 | One hundred years seems like a long time to us , because it is longer than our lifetime . |
| 14 | Goes on a long time does it ? |
| 15 | If the situation lasts for a long time with no sign of improvement , you should discuss the future very carefully with the doctor or hospital specialist , rather than trying to cope in a hopeless situation which can not resolve itself . |
| 16 | The period is 27 years , and the eclipse lasts for a long time ; the last began on 22 July 1982 and did not end until 25 June 1984 , though it was total only for a year ( January 1983 to January 1984 ) . |
| 17 | This , the kylix par excellence , remains for a long time a vehicle for some of the finest vase-drawing , in the ton do and in many figured compositions between the handles . |
| 18 | Global ventricular dilatation , which results from a progressive increase in myocyte length with sarcomere recruitment and resulting hypertrophy of the non-infarcted myocardium , continues for a long time . |
| 19 | The winner is the one who jumps and crawls for the longest time , and he receives a blue ribbon to wear round his waist . |