Example sentences of "not [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But they say he must n't go home and live on his own , not for a long while at any rate . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd heard tales about some people having seen an old man down there but not for a long while , he would n't hurt anyone so your lad need n't be scared of him . ’ |
| 3 | He shrugged his shoulders , ‘ At times I like to speak English , but not for a long time . |
| 4 | ‘ Before , but not for a long time now , ’ Maggie admitted reluctantly and Rose did not want to learn any more . |
| 5 | Once workers have installed Britain 's new cable , no one expects that the country will want to replace it — at least not for a long time . |
| 6 | Not for a long time had Vi felt so uncomfortable . |
| 7 | It is a combination that I have used in the past but not for a long time , although blue and white stripes in fabrics are a perennial favourite of mine . |
| 8 | No , I wo n't return , not for a long time , it 's too painful and upsetting . |
| 9 | Not for a long time . |
| 10 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 11 | But er not not for a long time . |
| 12 | Been to it before but not for a long time . |
| 13 | Not for a long time now . |
| 14 | If the memory of the association of a given flavour with illness can be taken to be more important than the memory that the flavour has also been experienced without harmful consequences , then the latter memory would interfere after a short but not after a long retention interval . |
| 15 | It 's not like the Long Drive . ’ |
| 16 | Where government introduces measures that exclude people from resources long since used by them , the people come to view the project as a zero-sum game ( Thomson in Glantz , ed. 1977 ) , where their loss is exactly others ' gain , and conservation will not in the long run lead to an increase in their incomes . |
| 17 | Not in the long run . |
| 18 | He will not in the long run profit from arrangements that turn the surviving research institutes into training grounds for emigrant specialists . |
| 19 | It 's not in the long book . |
| 20 | That 's one corporate plan that ca n't win , not in the long term . |
| 21 | One does not get a sense of a strong need for support from parents to children to be reciprocated — certainly not in the short term , and possibly not in the long term either . |
| 22 | This is not in the long term interests of global capitalism , and TNCs through their governments have been known to put pressure on dictators for the purpose of creating or restoring pluralist political systems . |
| 23 | Erm any strategy for taking jobs away from other parts of the country towards Harrogate will not solve the nation 's problems and it will not in the long term solve North Yorkshire 's problems . |
| 24 | It was not until a long time afterwards that Catriona thought she understood the reason Sarah seemed young , which was simple : she looked directly at everyone and let them look back at her . |
| 25 | The image of Neil Young as the wayward eccentric does n't tell the whole story , not by a long way . |
| 26 | Not through choice , not by a long way , but it was where I 'd made my destiny , even if as an alien . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've not finished with you yet — not by a long way ! ’ |
| 28 | Not by a long shot . |
| 29 | I 'm not a retarded under-age flower who was raped or molested by some evil step-father — not by a long shot . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Not by a long shot , ’ said Joe . |