Example sentences of "a [adv] long time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has taken the rest of industry in this country a remarkably long time to come around to his viewpoint , but it is finally looking as though the penny has dropped . |
| 2 | Therefore , before a conclusion is reached , tests must be continued for a sufficiently long time to demonstrate an adequate shelf-life in the market concerned . |
| 3 | In other words , they have been allowed to grow and multiply for a sufficiently long time to produce large numbers of cells . |
| 4 | He took a terribly long time to clean his hands . |
| 5 | The record 's gone through a lot of transformations and taken a hellaciously long time to get done . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Mr Deukmejian , who was elected governor in 1982 , has been trying for a mighty long time to get the death penalty enforced in California . |
| 8 | This can be contrasted with the centesimal scale where we may have to wait a fairly long time to ascertain the action of the remedy . |
| 9 | I mean that people like , you know , have said that the British secret intelligence have been have been doing now for a quite long time have been waging a sort of undercover war and er I 'm sure some of it 's true |
| 10 | We can assume that in a normal working session a lexicographer will spend a relatively long time thinking as opposed to manipulating text . |
| 11 | T n tracts of T 9 GCA 9 persist for a relatively long time adds further weight to the suggestion that these are caused by ligand-induced alterations in local DNA structure , rendering it more susceptible to attack by this nuclease . |
| 12 | In comparison with the inhibition effect , however , this facilitation only occurred when the subject was given a relatively long time to read the context . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'll wait a very long time to do that , ’ he gritted . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ It took a very long time to reconcile myself with my father . ’ |
| 19 | However desirable this might be , in a highly complex and differentiated society such as ours this undertaking would need a very long time given our present methods , resources and interests . |
| 20 | It would take a very long time to implement and would be very costly . |
| 21 | The effects of hormones may themselves take a very long time to appear . |
| 22 | The move towards economic sanctions is necessary , unfortunately , but sanctions will take a very long time to work . |
| 23 | It comes as no surprise to learn that it took director Peter Greenaway a very long time to find a film company that would consider his script for more than 30 seconds . |
| 24 | Miranda fled , unseeing down the dark passage to the lavatory where she sat for a very long time feeling sick to her stomach . |
| 25 | But it 's expensive , useless as an insulator when wet and takes a very long time to dry . |
| 26 | Choose the right Koi and it could be an investment for life — choose the wrong one and you could be a very short — or a very long time regretting your mistake . |
| 27 | There are first of all those colleagues who for a very long time have consistently held to the view that Britain should not be a part of the Common Market . |
| 28 | ‘ It ca n't be denied that all this has taken a very long time to come about , but I think that , political wrangling aside , much of the delay has been due to genuine uncertainty about the tax implications of moving money around from one body to another . |
| 29 | Hilda Lodge ( Kent ) has hung up her teaching cap , but will continue to wear her Executive and Publicity Committee hats for a very long time to come , we hope . |
| 30 | Gillian 's Uncle George was a very long time coming . |