Example sentences of "for too long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps that is why I 'm not all that much attached to being part of a permanent company for too long — I get bored by being around in one place for too long . |
| 2 | Perhaps that is why I 'm not all that much attached to being part of a permanent company for too long — I get bored by being around in one place for too long . |
| 3 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 4 | Care must be taken not to keep the stick forward for too long , as too much forward movement during the take-off run will prevent the glider from leaving the ground until a much higher speed is reached . |
| 5 | For too long I thought this type of training was not the responsibility of the vet . |
| 6 | In a speech that blended music-hall style with soap-box rhetoric , the veteran left wing MP for Bolsover , said : ‘ For too long the Labour Party has been trying to follow in the wake of Mrs Thatcher 's agenda . |
| 7 | ‘ The concern must be whether interest rates have already been too high for too long , ’ Mr Wyatt said . |
| 8 | Having worked with too many men for too long , she confessed to having found them out only too soon . |
| 9 | For too long the big firms in particular relied on the cosy requirement of a statutory audit to ensure their bread was generously buttered . |
| 10 | For too long it had been treated as a Cinderella service . |
| 11 | . I think we have been silent too long , we 've tolerated too much for too long . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ For too long in this country we have pushed parental responsibility into the sidelines . |
| 13 | ‘ For too long some judges have appeared to be out of touch , ’ Edward Hess , of the Conservative Lawyers , said . |
| 14 | After a couple of hours of observing in these conditions , shapes and objects in front of me appeared to move , if I stared at them for too long . |
| 15 | She kept the pregnancy to herself — or rather kept it from herself , and from everyone else , for too long . |
| 16 | But do n't dilly-dally for too long ; once it 's published we are all going to look a little risible if we have made no adjustments to what is after all known as being predominantly my own design of gallery . |
| 17 | When Rose saw the table already set for morning , she said , ‘ If you were around for too long I 'd be spoiled rotten . |
| 18 | She was able to conceal her restlessness , the pacing about , her dream of a different beginning to a new life , her impatience with the old shapes that she had used for too long ; she was not young and was old enough to foresee failure . |
| 19 | Rose was anxious , feeling that he had lived in the stone house with too much responsibility for too long . |
| 20 | Officers have said they tolerated the old conditions for too long . |
| 21 | Nobody can know the world , not even the parts of it on offer to tourists , but they can know how to look them up , and the training for too long has been exiguous . |
| 22 | For too long , we have stared from the moon in reproachful silence at this spectacle . |
| 23 | It is grown very high in the foothills of the Himalayas and has a light grapy flavour , although I find it can become slightly acidic if brewed for too long . |
| 24 | For too long , over-indulgent teachers have churned out children for whom reading is a challenge and writing a mystery . |
| 25 | ‘ For too long the international community has swallowed the Serb propaganda line , ’ said Zvonko Lerotic , an advisor to Croatia 's president , Franjo Tudjman . |
| 26 | For too long we have lived with no expectation of renewal , or growth , or power . |
| 27 | To Marquand , MacDonald 's real fault was that he held on to his nineteenth-century principles for too long . |
| 28 | Non-availability is an idea deeply embedded in the Christian tradition of celibacy ; though for too long now it has been seen as renunciation by men of sinful life , rather than as a radical statement by women . |
| 29 | The powerful multiplicity of sexuality has for too long been reduced to the level of the coarse car sticker , the symbol of two feet pointing upwards and two feet pointing downwards . |
| 30 | Some people say you get tired and jaded with something if you plan too much or for too long . |