Example sentences of "for [adv] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The adventure ties up a computer for quite a long time . |
| 32 | from er statement banks for pupils for quite a long time and why |
| 33 | That went on for quite a long time |
| 34 | Well here , here are char for example , this is a female , you see the , the white line on the fins and the very pale pink spots , this will actually get gradually more highly coloured until about December when they will be quite bright red , and , and in my opinion not a question really , but might be that some of these other ones are pretty nice as well here 's quite a , quite a dark little trout , probably been in the light for quite a long time , right now nevertheless that 's a female as well just a couple more famous small ones here , that 's a young salmon , that 's really a beauty . |
| 35 | The activity was sustained for quite a long time by pupils who , according to their label , have difficulty sustaining anything . |
| 36 | ‘ However , the point is that for quite a long time nobody really wanted to know about Doctor Who outside Sydney and Donald . |
| 37 | Soon after I got my English A-level , mum learned that she had to go into hospital for quite a long time . |
| 38 | We have , we have had that form kicking around for quite a long time and it 's never really been |
| 39 | The door was solid and would hold up for quite a long time . |
| 40 | My hands got very cold too , but my mother helped me every morning by baking two potatoes in their skins for me to keep in my pockets ; they retained their heat for quite a long time . |
| 41 | It was the last peace I was to savour , for quite a long time . |
| 42 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 43 | Er I do n't , I ca n't even remember whether I had anything for mother in forty-three and forty-for , but I do know there was a death for quite a long time . |
| 44 | Iris has known Philippe for quite a long time . |
| 45 | but there was no parties after that for quite a long time . |
| 46 | She was silent for quite a long time . |
| 47 | She and Tom must have been here for quite a long time , then . |
| 48 | We walked for quite a long time and covered a good deal of ground . |
| 49 | He ended up in Nairobi and lived there for quite a long time . |
| 50 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 51 | The disappointment with Wilson felt like Freud must have sort of lingered for quite a long time , cos it was not for eight years that he actually ventured on . |
| 52 | Repairing gutters is not a job for the fainthearted since it involves working up a ladder for quite a long time . |
| 53 | The Quix supermarket had refused the box because they 'd ha although they 'd had it for a cert for quite a long time during the miner 's strike I think . |
| 54 | for example about , because you know one of the things that I 've thought about for quite a long time is the idea of encouraging voluntary organizations , concerned with the disability to get more interested in the arts and that 's obviously what Mecca is |
| 55 | They will be standing up for quite a long time . |
| 56 | My brother in law died and i felt gutted for quite a long time |
| 57 | I mean he was married for quite a long time to her apparently . |
| 58 | Dad used to put erm a lot on it but we had to have erm the chimney sweep at ours for quite a long time |
| 59 | Well of course Miss MacDonald would n't have would n't mind you to keep a book for quite a long time . |
| 60 | It came to light that er a great many of the members , a great many of the people who talked about their early experiences reported some sort of abusive experience , either y'know er quite a short one that went on over many many years you know that er if it was some relative or friend of the family they were likely to have been abused for quite a long time in some cases . |