Example sentences of "do [verb] [art] long time " in BNC.

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1 All the artistes were in England , but the staff were in New York , and to get money and to get certain things that we needed to do took a long time .
2 But those old ideas do take a long time to die .
3 You do take a long time to come out has not reached the non strikers and er , some said he had a little reading from who .
4 It did take a long time for anything to happen .
5 During an , a very intensive training and organization period in the United States during the first half of nineteen forty three , and that does sound a long time ago , er we er the Three-Ninetieth Bomb Group , under the able direction of Colonel , er arrived at Parham , right here , in July nineteen forty three .
6 Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another .
7 The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food .
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