Example sentences of "for [art] long [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 A variety of reasons were proffered for the long delay in setting the seal on a deal but drummer Gary Murdoch maintains that ‘ we 've had a string of managers who did n't really know their job ’ .
2 He and his co-pilot settled down in the darkness for the long flight in the cramped cockpit .
3 Stretching to ease tired muscles , she debated whether to go for a swim in the pool or opt for a long soak in a warm scented bath .
4 ‘ She 's gone to Sam 's party , ’ said Scarlet , hastily , applying the brush to her hair and wondering why it made you feel so odd if you looked at yourself for a long while in the glass .
5 Supertop ran well for a long way in the season 's opener at Doncaster .
6 The mayor appealed to both sides to spare the city 's Turkish-era centre as terrified residents prepared for a long night in cellar shelters .
7 Those and many other pressures may distract them from remaining for a long period in the Territorial Army .
8 Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it .
9 It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline .
10 OIL RICH beats filthy rich every time , but after several years of battling to remain buoyant in the remorseless wake of the Maktoums , Robert Sangster clambered back on to terra firma with his most significant win for a long time in Saturday 's Hoover Fillies ' Mile at Ascot .
11 They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore .
12 He deliberated for a long time in front of the pad , and then suddenly rose and put it away without writing anything .
13 ‘ People always want to see how the Führer looks , whether he is serious or laughing , ’ and had expressed disappointment that they had not even heard his voice for a long time in the newsreels , for , as one report put it , ‘ the words of the Führer are gospel for the people ’ .
14 The Commission on Analytical Nomenclature of IUPAC has been active for a long time in establishing nomenclature for chromatography .
15 But the old Jew sat for a long time in silence as the wind and rain in the darkness outside lashed at the windows of Damiani 's old home .
16 Also , the slow course of the disease implied that any drug would have to be given for a long time in order to be effective and so would have to be particularly harmless to patients .
17 I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain .
18 But although I played lead for a long time in the group I never cite lead players like Clapton or Beck .
19 He must have worked for a long time in the garage .
20 There were two men apart from the one with the rifle and she heard them quarrelling for a long time in another room . ’
21 A referee 's mistake lost them the match against Auckland and they were in with a chance for a long time in the Test — there was only one — before being beaten 11–3 .
22 This view remained dominant for a long time in sociology , but more recently other sociologists have become reluctant to view people as happy robots , acting out predetermined roles .
23 Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain .
24 The Tynedale Fenwicks and the Liddesdale Elliots were involved for a long time in a savage , unyielding feud ; and the Armstrongs , among their many clashes , quarrelled simultaneously with the Scottish Turnbulls and Johnstones and with the English Bells , while the Bells were also feuding with the English Grahams .
25 And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour .
26 I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell .
27 but erm , er at a stage that they are in and been for a long time in the States as we will have to er get armed , well I 'm sorry to say this but it seems like it
28 He must have saved up his pocket money for a long time in order to buy one of Uncle Philip 's masks .
29 They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone .
30 Unfortunately , this is the first winter for a long time in which Lowa has no distribution in Britain but I dare say someone will fill the gap before long .
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