Example sentences of "do [vb infin] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But those old ideas do take a long time to die . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It did take a long time for anything to happen . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |