Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 2 | We do n't say nothing for a long time . |
| 3 | She said nothing for a long time , then shook her head . |
| 4 | Nothing for a long time like the five hundred . |
| 5 | Never get bored with the fact that you 've been with someone for a long time , it 's a good thing , not a bad thing . |
| 6 | In the Ethiopian revolution no one for a long time knew the fate of Haile Fida , leader of the left-wing Meison group : I only had his death confirmed when the Ethiopian lift-operator in a DC hotel told me he had been in the same cell when Haile was taken out to be shot . |
| 7 | There has n't been one for a long time and that 's all I can say . |
| 8 | I 'd thought about that one for a long time , wondering who Beya and Gabricus were , and had paid little attention to the note in brackets which had been added afterwards : ( Frater mysticus meus . ) |
| 9 | We have n't done this one for a long time have we ? |
| 10 | Descending this great river , the Oued Nfis , from that ‘ lost world ’ was something of a long dream realised . |
| 11 | Whatever the result turned out to be , I would need sustenance , ( the Eccles cakes being something of a long shot ) , and that meant being prepared to risk leaving the Shell for a lightning raid into Pigeon Alley . |
| 12 | But if you reshape the national accounts and show the money is going on capital projects ( something of a long term value ) it becomes a different matter . |
| 13 | Because one week we had one from a long bit ago but I did n't see the rest through the week . |
| 14 | Life is too short to continue hating anyone for a long time . |
| 15 | I wo n't marry anyone for a long time . |
| 16 | For anyone on a long car journey , FM will never produce a solid clear path like the long-wave ( LW ) which carries Radio 4 the length and breadth of the land , up hill and down dale . |
| 17 | He sat staring before him , seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers , inexhaustible and prolific to the end of time . |
| 18 | They none of them said anything for a long time . |
| 19 | He had n't seen her eat anything for a long time . |
| 20 | No one had said anything for a long time . |
| 21 | The thing is they wo n't be going shopping , they wo n't be doing anything for a long time and she 's |
| 22 | She had n't felt so pleased by anything in a long time . |