Example sentences of "and [verb] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small generator can be used primarily to stop a battery discharging and it will only be able to recharge a battery if it is small and has a long time in which to do it . |
| 2 | Indulging in litigation may mean that you have to expend substantial sums of money and wait a long time before achieving victory ; to lose could prove very costly . |
| 3 | Is he aware that even when people are examined , are found to have cataracts and wait a long time for the operation , some of them — such as a 91-year-old constituent of mine — are told that Royal Oldham hospital , which has been granted trust status , does not have the money to provide the necessary medicines and has money to help only the elderly ? |
| 4 | But this , as he would say , is a long story , and happened a long time ago . |
| 5 | Wild rice has a very nutty flavour and takes a long time to cook . |
| 6 | But that 's the hard way and takes a long time . |
| 7 | Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) . |
| 8 | They started in the Fabric Hall , and spent a long time fingering various swathes of cloth . |
| 9 | And so Willi was squeezing himself into his best suit , the one he wore for daytime ceremonial occasions , and had spattered himself lavishly with aftershave cologne , and spent a long time arranging the frill of curls round his bald crown . |
| 10 | The more entrenched feeding problems can be very difficult to treat and take a long time to show improvement . |
| 11 | Certain kinds of illness and illness-proneness are experienced : people are more likely to catch a cold or flu , for example , and be less able to shake it off ; they feel generally run down and may suffer from mysterious but more debilitating viruses , such as ME or glandular fever , that are difficult to diagnose and take a long time to clear up . |
| 12 | He is absent yet meticulous , paying for a missing drink-shop teaspoon which has nothing to do with him , and spending a long time in the ‘ interesting occupation ’ of trying to catch a fly . |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't pick Davis , we chose each other and decided a long time ago that we wanted to play this tournament together . |
| 14 | He looked across at the other two , who were laughing and taking a long time to get Maggie 's drink . |
| 15 | Richards won the toss and took a long time to decide to bat ; when he did so Dilley bowled superbly , and five wickets went down for just 54 . |
| 16 | He raised his eyes from the pattern and stared a long time at my friend and I — the only two white people on the journey . |
| 17 | Very dirty items , if they are cleaned immediately and take a long time , can upset the flow and cause a log-jam of dirties with congestion in the reception area which restricts work further . |
| 18 | A tightly compacted surface of graded stones kept water at bay and lasted a long time . |