Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be a tribute to the resilience of these people that they lived so long and survived through it all . |
| 2 | They used to go off painting together at week-ends , often in Burger 's boat , and they spent quite long holidays abroad . |
| 3 | They took so long to repair the pipe that the ceiling was black and bits of plaster were falling off . |
| 4 | It was pretty good for him to be noticed by me as I was far more impressed with WBA than Wolves — no wonder they signed Geoff Thomas , they play more long balls than C Palace ! |
| 5 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
| 6 | Well if they take as long to do it I mean good heavens there 's been one clanking manhole cover at Halam and it has taken them weeks to do it . |
| 7 | Conceptually brilliant they may be , but they take too long to get the hang of . |
| 8 | Unfortunately you find that no-one has ever bothered to produce the graphics before because they take too long to print out on the current office printer ! |
| 9 | In addition , some painkillers are ruled out ( such as epidural ) , because they take too long to administer and take effect , so your plans for your birth may have to be altered at the last minute . |
| 10 | ‘ They take so long to get back to pupils , ’ was one comment . |
| 11 | That 's why they take so long . |
| 12 | They take so long to sort it . |
| 13 | ‘ Obviously they have very long memories but I am not going to get involved in any more comments , ’ added the former Gloucester , Worcester and England batsman and BBC commentator . |
| 14 | Most promoters analyzed in detail , which correspond to Escherichia coli , form open complexes with RNA polymerase that are essentially irreversible in vitro , in the sense that they have relatively long half-lives ( in the range of several minutes to hours , refs. 3 , 4 , 6 , 7 ) , and are therefore resistant to the challenge of competitors such as heparin or heterologous DNA . |
| 15 | The variation between English-language speakers about what syllables , in effect what vowels , they treat as long or short , is so great that there can be no question of imposing on English verse a quantitative metre such as was used for ancient Latin ( doubtless with some strain for those who spoke classical Latin with dialectal variations as to quantity ) . |
| 16 | The private sector can not invest in the circumstances set out in the bill , because they need very long franchises with control of all the means of production , the track , the trains , the stations , the total business . |
| 17 | They work incredibly long hours with no day of rest for a monthly income which in the United States would not even amount to a basic daily wage . |