Example sentences of "for a [adv] long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite episcopal censures , the practice continued for a surprisingly long time ; measures were taken to stop Irish clergy so cohabiting as late as the sixth century . |
| 2 | It has become the drug of choice for the American armed forces and for the World Health Organization , and has survived against the threat of resistant strains for a surprisingly long time . |
| 3 | Basically , however , British cities ‘ got by ’ for a surprisingly long time . |
| 4 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 5 | Mr Deukmejian , who was elected governor in 1982 , has been trying for a mighty long time to get the death penalty enforced in California . |
| 6 | But he 'll have a sore head for a pretty long time , I should imagine . ’ |
| 7 | Some have been living for a disconcertingly long time in museums ; but once doubted , the evidence of inadequacy in a fake is quite often soon in coming . |
| 8 | This effect persists for a relatively long time , and as there is a specific relationship between the stimuli and the responses , it is regarded as a genuine form of associative learning . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In other words , they have been allowed to grow and multiply for a sufficiently long time to produce large numbers of cells . |
| 12 | All you need to do is to be sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time and and his mates will turn around and throw up their hands and shak and and turn somersaults . |
| 13 | People who have intelligence and a conscience wrestle with these problems and we 've come to a conclusion which is as good a deal as we think we can get , with the people of the area and with the Labour party and I think he said that if people in this authority are sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time then people will change their minds . |
| 14 | The 'phone rang for a very long time and when Mrs Pettifer eventually answered she sounded quite put out . |
| 15 | ‘ As far as the grassroots are concerned we have got one , and I hope we have her for a very long time . ’ |
| 16 | It has been a shareholder for a very long time in some private companies and I think we 've become known to be a supportive shareholder . |
| 17 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 18 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 19 | It is important to have been about for a very long time . |
| 20 | Owen O'Neil agrees : ‘ There 's no major comedy circuit in Northern Ireland in the way there is in London , but people have survived for a very long time on the strength of their own sense of humour . ’ |
| 21 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've worked together for a very long time . ’ |
| 23 | If you have been hunting for the perfect diet for a very long time it will be difficult to stop , actually to believe that good weight control can be established without resorting to one special diet that you go on ( and then , and this is the snag , come off again ) . |
| 24 | Christian festivals had coexisted for a very long time with ancient non-Christian celebrations . |
| 25 | If ever this ended , I thought , I would n't go walking in woodland for a very long time . |
| 26 | We have been a nation state for a very long time . |
| 27 | Short trousers , grubby knees , odd socks , and a pair of indescribable shoes that had belonged to his elder brother , completed the picture of a happy child , unlikely to be able to spell simple words like ‘ class ’ for a very long time . |
| 28 | Riverside conditions such as that , must have continued to exist for a very long time , for when the Romans arrived and established — about A.D.47 — a settlement astride the River Fleet where it ran into the north bank of the River Thames , the River Fleet was about two hundred yards wide at that junction . |
| 29 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
| 30 | It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time , perhaps even since it had been laid to rest . |