Example sentences of "this [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
2 | Had been dreaming about this for a long time , he wrote . |
3 | Again , we have paid lip-service to this for a long time , but it has not been an easy ideal to achieve . |
4 | I 've been meaning to say this for a long time , ’ said Susan , with an assumption of severity which moved her sister to ribald mirth . |
5 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
6 | The department 's going to hear about this for a long time . ’ |
7 | " I have advocated this for a long time " , he declared , " and now I see that some of the shipowners are inclined to agree to it . |
8 | They stayed together like this for a long time . |
9 | I know you 've thought about this for a long time , ’ he hissed , gripping her shoulders tightly to prevent movement . |
10 | They remained like this for a long time . |
11 | I thought about this for a long time and slowly I realized that I was not extraordinary in this . |
12 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
13 | I was thought of as rather gallant and dashing , and I played on this for a long time , emphasizing the cruelty and hardship aspects of the camp , and skating over the boredom and hunger , which were what I chiefly remembered . |
14 | Stars will remain stable like this for a long time , with heat from the nuclear reactions balancing the gravitational attraction . |
15 | I do this for a long time . |
16 | Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ? |
17 | I 've been wanting to say this for a long time . ’ |
18 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |
19 | ‘ We have wanted something like this for a long time . ’ |
20 | I do n't think he will be able to , like this for a long time . |
21 | she obviously did n't know this for a long time and then one day I said to her , well , it was lovely meal and all that but I do think your mark-up on the wine is scandalous ! |
22 | He followed this with a long letter two months later , in which he tried to convince Pound of his achievement and to sympathize with the despair and anxiety which now assailed him . |
23 | The management and workers of those domestic firms which join the TCC may well benefit from this in the long run , as well as the foreign-controlled sector . |
24 | The figures for males and females are also consistent with our findings for ( a ) and ( Ε ) : females lead in the move away from traditional vernacular forms , and this in the long term tends to reduce allophony and simplify alternations . |
25 | If you are getting on to a diet which involves being very restricted for choice , and in some cases , missing out meals altogether , you are perfectly normal if you find it difficult to stick to this in the long term . |
26 | If they can learn to sustain this over a long while , The La 's would be world-shakers . |
27 | In this way , the mother provides her baby with more food over the period of its development than she would be able to pack into a single egg , and what is more , she can do this over a long period instead of being compelled to produce it all at one moment . |
28 | Since governments are unlikely to do this over the long term , this will not be a long-term source of excessive monetary growth . |