Example sentences of "in [noun] for long [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he said in spite of the fact that I 've been in parliament for longer than he has , which surprised me cos I would n't have thought so this is the young Winston Churchill of course so the Chinese man said to him erm oh well the reason for that was that he had a famous grandfather |
| 2 | BBC Network Television director Will Wyatt said : ‘ Jonathan has done one of the toughest jobs in television for longer than almost all of his predecessors . ’ |
| 3 | They would take long breaks , and would sometimes work slowly , leaving components in vats for longer than necessary . |
| 4 | Leading geriatric specialists fear that old people may be denied help because they stay in hospital for longer than average — and run up bigger bills . |
| 5 | The use of St Pancras would require trains between Scotland and the Continent to stop in London for longer than previously expected , because of the need to reverse direction in a terminal platform . |