Example sentences of "take a [adv] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's expensive , useless as an insulator when wet and takes a very long time to dry . |
| 2 | If this is the case , the changes of the past 30 years may be the first signs of a return to the more traditional population distribution of pre-industrial Britain , but it must also be borne in mind that it takes a very long time to shift major population patterns , and that the present trends may only be a veneer on an underlying and more permanent structure . |
| 3 | In terms of a human life-span , the development of a hill-slope takes a very long time , and one could not stay around long enough to test alternative theories of hill-slope development if observation of processes acting on the present landscape produced the only relevant data . |
| 4 | Er , what companies can do , or should seek to do , is of course , see if they can manage round those tensions as well , but it takes a very long time to do that . |
| 5 | The display on consumption utilises the age-old trick of piling up an adult 's average monthly intake of food ( enormous amounts of chocolate ) and invites the visitor to burn off excess calories on an ‘ Energy Bike ’ ( it does , of course , take a depressingly long time to nullify the effect of just one grape ) . |
| 6 | This may mean that a file which operates well under normal conditions , i.e. many home records being accessed but few synonyms , may take a relatively long time to process sequentially . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose you could always take a very long way round . ’ |
| 8 | He said he would probably stay on for about two years after the tunnel opens for passenger traffic , probably next summer , and would then take a very long holiday . |
| 9 | The effects of hormones may themselves take a very long time to appear . |
| 10 | Litigation , on the other hand , can take a very long time . |
| 11 | Alas for him , the speech proposing the loyal toast can sometimes take a very long time . |
| 12 | However , this can take a very long time to accomplish — some flyers never manage it — and will bring you closer and closer to the next stage to be conquered — the nose-in hover . |
| 13 | ‘ That did n't take a very long time , ’ said Masklin . |
| 14 | The process of separatism growing into a global force would thus take a very long time . |
| 15 | ‘ It will take a very long time before we can fully cooperate ’ , said Czech-born Thomas Messer . |
| 16 | Of course , that will take a very long time indeed . |
| 17 | It would take a very long time to implement and would be very costly . |
| 18 | The move towards economic sanctions is necessary , unfortunately , but sanctions will take a very long time to work . |
| 19 | Companies which find it more difficult because it 's the centre of their existence , erm , are clearly looking at the situation , but will actually take a very long time to move to the position which you , in your particular group would like them to occupy , and I understand that , changing in I C I is rather different from changing at I B M , and er , therefore it takes longer , but I do see a a consciousness , it 's the same conscious , you 're impatient for change , quite rightly , companies of course , have to keep their employees in an earning capacity , at the same time , er , move towards the position which you would like to them to do , and it may take a long time , but I accept your point , which is with some companies , then in fact , your clearly going to get attention of some kind . |
| 20 | New trees are being planted but it will take a very long time to repair the damage . |
| 21 | Two men were taking a suspiciously long time on a roof . |
| 22 | The ICC and Zimbabwe are taking a very long gamble . ’ |
| 23 | He took a terribly long time to clean his hands . |
| 24 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |
| 25 | ‘ It took a very long time to reconcile myself with my father . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It 's easy to edit now electronically , but in those days , where editing was done by looking down a microscope for a metal ink pulse , cutting the tape physically with a guillotine and then joining edges together with sticky tape , it took a very long time and could be very wasteful . ’ |
| 27 | Which took a very long time . |
| 28 | He took a very long time over it and in the end just lipped the hole . |
| 29 | However , there 's no doubt the blitz on the weeds on our return from holiday took a disproportionately long spell . |
| 30 | The record 's gone through a lot of transformations and taken a hellaciously long time to get done . ’ |