Example sentences of "so for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is bad enough to fail one 's driving test once ; to do so for a second time reinforces the sense of hopelessness in the learner 's mind — he now has twice as many failures to build upon — so that he uses his ability to visualize in an even more negative fashion . |
| 2 | They must also continue to be so for a reasonable time after delivery . |
| 3 | In the bite-shaped hollow , a small mound of viscous lava was growing and continued to do so for a long time afterwards . |
| 4 | Rigid solids are much harder to get hold of in tension and so for a long time such testing as was done was confined to compression and bending . |
| 5 | He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time . |
| 6 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |