Example sentences of "a long time [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a long time they had led a life of measured grace ; regular sedate walks with their mistress , superb food in ample quantities and long snoring sessions on the rugs and armchairs . |
| 2 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 3 | Yes , I think that the crucial thing that 's emerging , especially from the area of artificial intelligence , is that we 're beginning to understand that what the name of the game is getting people to express their intentions , and for a long time we 've been , as it were , stuck in languages that do n't really help you to do that and we 're really beginning to understand now that erm what people are doing when they program indeed , I mean as it were the ace programmers , are expressing their intention for whatever 's to be done in the task the computer 's to perform clearly . |
| 4 | For a long time we have been thinking and praying about a place of our own . |
| 5 | For a long time we have made it clear that the largest restriction on the growth of the transplant programme is the availability of donated organs , although it is not a restriction which has stopped the programme in its tracks . |
| 6 | If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome . |
| 7 | For a long time there had been no one else for him because he refused to compromise . |
| 8 | For a long time there had been a struggle for supremacy between the established church , the Quakers , the Catholics and the Congregationalists . |
| 9 | For a long time there has been a choice , but very few seem to have realised it . |
| 10 | For a long time she had thought they referred to a mother and a female baby bear . |
| 11 | For a long time she had been out of control , unable to cope with the everyday demands of her new royal role . |
| 12 | For a long time she had not been able to face many of her friends . |
| 13 | For a long time she had been unaware of anything lacking , but recently she had started feeling somehow … adrift . |
| 14 | For a long time he had held the envelope in his chubby fingers and close to his face . |
| 15 | A terrible knowledge had been swelling slowly in the Padre 's mind , like a sweet , poisonous fruit , which for a long time he had not dared to taste . |
| 16 | For a long time he had wondered about the history of this little family , now it looked as though he was going to find out . |
| 17 | I mean Tony 's been at the club a long time he 's expressed a wish to go erm his style and his age is probably just right to go on the continent , he 's twenty six years of age and er I would guess that his particular style wou possibly would be better suited to continental play than it is in England . |
| 18 | For a long time it had been accepted that humans could not survive on worlds which were in orbit around any sun which was capable of being classed as a red giant . |
| 19 | For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward . |
| 20 | For a long time it has been content with this unchanging splendour but more recently it has treated itself to a quartier in the most modern style , complete with a magnificent new concert hall , the Corum ( which unfortunately appears to have been built on ground that it is less than stable ) . |
| 21 | It 's a long time it 's been going since that sort of thing . |
| 22 | But to tell the truth , for a long time I 've been slightly lost as a dealer . |
| 23 | Mary , who now combines her psychology practice with astrological counselling , said : ‘ As a psychologist , for a long time I had been aware of a lack , that this science did not give the whole of the picture . |
| 24 | For a long time I had it in mind to write a story contrasting the fates of Eck and his British counterpart . |
| 25 | For a long time I have had a desire to understand better the behaviour and movements of wild birds and animals , and in the absence of the time ( and probably the dedication ) to undertake a proper study , I decided on a simple ploy which , I hoped , would get some results in the fullness of time . |
| 26 | Turner is one of my favourite painters , but for a long time I have had a theory that he had " wide-angle eyes " that filled the camera with distorted shapes . |
| 27 | for a long time I have been |