Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they can learn to sustain this over a long while , The La 's would be world-shakers . |
| 2 | Okay you wo n't need to know that for a long time yet anyway will you . |
| 3 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
| 4 | Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time . |
| 5 | Since governments are unlikely to do this over the long term , this will not be a long-term source of excessive monetary growth . |
| 6 | I 've been meaning to say this for a long time , ’ said Susan , with an assumption of severity which moved her sister to ribald mirth . |
| 7 | I 've been wanting to say this for a long time . ’ |