Example sentences of "[been] [adj] for a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It feels like I 've been asleep for a long , long time . |
| 2 | You 've been asleep for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 4 | If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome . |
| 5 | At the very least , the discipline of being involved in some form of training will help counteract the feeling of lethargy that creeps over many people who have been unemployed for a long while — a characteristic which is very counterproductive in an interview . |
| 6 | To summarize : if you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long period : |
| 7 | It has been clear for a long time that where land adjoining the highway is unintentionally entered , i.e. as a result of a car accident , that the plaintiff must prove negligence ( River Wear Commissioners v Adamson ( 1877 ) 2 App Cas 743 ) . |
| 8 | The trend towards equality of attainment is especially marked in schools that have been comprehensive for a long time . |
| 9 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 10 | ‘ War 's been inevitable for a long time , Anne . ’ |
| 11 | Old John Knox had been ill for a long time and , two years after I joined the firm , he was told that he must retire . |
| 12 | Very often I spend long days on my allotment , and cook quite nice dinners of , say , breast of mutton and peas and fruit off the allotment for myself and a [ woman ] friend who has been ill for a long time … . |
| 13 | Stable jockey Chris Grant said : ‘ He had been ill for a long while , but carried on because his horses were his life . ’ |
| 14 | But the poor woman had been ill for a long time , although we had not realized it , and died soon after Hareton was born . |
| 15 | ‘ She 'd been ill for a long time . |
| 16 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 17 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 18 | When the silence had been undisturbed for a long , chilly while he crept out of his nest and drew himself gently up the last few yards of broken rock into the long grass and bushes at the edge of the plateau . |
| 19 | ‘ And this man , Leonora , has been celibate for a long time . |
| 20 | Rural groups have been vulnerable for a long time . |
| 21 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 22 | I have n't been happy for a long time but now I think I 'm going to be . ’ |
| 23 | May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on what he has done at Maastricht in limiting the powers of the Commission , about which my constituents have been concerned for a long time ? |
| 24 | The other important sub-sect to figure prominently in recent biblical scholarship has been familiar for a long time , but under a different name . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd been miserable for a long time . |
| 26 | There was a sort of thirstiness about Julia 's immersion in the conversation , as though she 'd been parched for a long time . |
| 27 | The Commission on Analytical Nomenclature of IUPAC has been active for a long time in establishing nomenclature for chromatography . |
| 28 | In terms of the ‘ demographic transition ’ it is a great puzzle to explain why the response to them was so late in a relatively literate , urbanized , and industrialized society where returns from children do not seem to have been plausible for a long time ( R. M. Smith 1981 ) . |
| 29 | She knew the woman had been dead for a long time . |
| 30 | I think I have been dead for a long time now . |