Example sentences of "for [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Impossible to reconcile space suggested by charts and space of room , which is just what I wanted , but for so long did n't know how to arrive at . |
| 2 | What had been in my head for so long now out there , in the world . |
| 3 | As I looked through the viewer I had the feeling , momentarily , that it really was what I had dreamed about for so long , a sort of crystal ball in which I could call up everything I had ever known . |
| 4 | So there must have been something in it to hold my attention for so long . |
| 5 | Ivan Lendl has been a great credit to the game which he has played with distinction for so long . |
| 6 | Labour would be acquiescing in a ‘ democratic outrage ’ if it continued arguing that , because the Conservatives had got away with being undemocratic for so long , it was now Labour 's turn . |
| 7 | Under Felipismo , Spaniards have come to depend on the state again , as they did for so long under Generalissimo Franco 's regime . ’ |
| 8 | Mr Hunt said of the changes in the poll tax rules for teenagers : ‘ A new wider exemption will apply to all young adults under the age of 20 for so long as they are still at school or in full-time further — though not higher -education . ’ |
| 9 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 10 | If this date is within eight weeks from the start of the PIW , you will not have to pay SSP for so long . |
| 11 | In this ‘ Leninist ’ , as he was dubbed , still shone that naïve peasant trust in the very highest authority that had kept the Romanovs secure for so long . |
| 12 | His line was that he 'd lost contact with Malcolm because he could only stand to be with him for so long at a stretch . |
| 13 | Equally notable has been the worsening relationship with leaders of the Church of England — for so long known as the Tory party at prayer . |
| 14 | Meanings are crucial to understanding how England lived with chaotic marriage and no divorce for so long before changing the rules governing personal relation-ships decisively . |
| 15 | It was one of the more simple reasons why she denied the pregnancy , even to herself , for so long . |
| 16 | The life they had come to know so well for so long as it slipped by changelessly would be irrevocably altered : it was like a death or a wounding and brought all the wonder and fear and awe of change . |
| 17 | It makes me feel a bit funny being in the dark for so long . |
| 18 | With the precious metal that has been undetected for so long in the folds of these hills , disseminated through the rock in an average ratio of half an ounce to a ton of stone , the sheer volume of likely debris is worrying . |
| 19 | For so long he had wondered if he would ever walk abroad again . |
| 20 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 21 | Having been rejected after holding sway for so long , they are now seeking new ways of making friends and influencing people . |
| 22 | The pre-occupations which have dominated debates at Westminster for so long no longer make sense . |
| 23 | Given their weakened state , the Dutch had done well to hold out for so long . |
| 24 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 25 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 26 | Neither Andy Forshaw nor Martin Langston stood out in the HDM event , so Clark , for so long on the fringe of national selection , could get his chance for England in the Buttermen Indoor tournament at Crystal Palace on December 29-30 . |
| 27 | A sign : ‘ We 're sorry that this escalator has been out of use for so long … ’ |
| 28 | They 've been rescuing companies for so long they do it automatically now , I expect . |
| 29 | It is hard to see how such a regime could have survived for so long , after bringing such unexampled disaster on its people . |
| 30 | In November 1983 Milan Kundera wrote an essay for Le Débat , in which he argued that Russia could never really be considered part of Europe because it had for so long been dominated by Caesaropapism , where the civil emperor is also the supreme religious leader . |