Example sentences of "a long time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But those old ideas do take a long time to die . |
| 2 | Littleton , Massachusetts-based Alliant Computer Systems Corp is taking a long time to die — too long for Craig Mundie , who resigned as president and chief executive to accept a position with Microsoft Corp as general manager , Advanced Consumer Technologies . |
| 3 | The picturesque view , which envisages life as art , took a long time to die . |
| 4 | I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’ |
| 5 | The switched-off siren was taking a long time to die . |
| 6 | Victims frequently took a long time to die , often very unpleasantly . |
| 7 | They started in the Fabric Hall , and spent a long time fingering various swathes of cloth . |
| 8 | Nails went upstairs and after a long time came down with a pair of paint-spattered dungarees and two pairs of jeans belonging to his father who weighed about sixteen stone , two jerseys of Gary 's and a navy-blue suit of indeterminate ancestry . |
| 9 | But the wounds inflicted by the media will , it appears , take a long time to heal . |
| 10 | An old person who is bedbound may get pressure sores or ulcers in a very short time and these can take a long time to heal ( see page 78 ) . |
| 11 | The scars of Bosnia will take a long time to heal . |
| 12 | Relationships once broken in this way may take a long time to heal . |
| 13 | It 's taking a long time to heal . ’ |
| 14 | No erm er even now , and the the strike 's been finished I ca n't remember four months or something , three months , you know the community I think it 'll take a a hell of a long time to heal the rifts and mend the scars . |
| 15 | ‘ The scars will take a long time to heal . ’ |
| 16 | The small size of the private-rented sector and the difficulties which council house tenants face in moving between local authority areas have for a long time constituted major barriers to long distance migration by lower-income workers ( Robertson , 1979 ; Hughes and McCormick , 1981 ; OPCS , 1983 ; Hamnett , 1984 ) . |
| 17 | The difficulty here is that this would take a long time to carry out , besides which , there is the problem of access . |
| 18 | However , he stressed that economic growth was still heavily dependent on continued flows of external assistance , since the programmes under way would take a long time to carry out . |
| 19 | The four-cylinder engine was more reliable in 1957 , but BRM took a long time to realise that the P25 's air strut suspension — carried over from the V16 — was the cause of its savage oversteer . |
| 20 | It took Rauschning a long time to realise that his standpoint was exactly opposite to Forster 's . |
| 21 | It means so much to the supporters in the Oxford area , it means so much to the club , I think you 've really got to be up here for a long time to realise just how much it does mean to everybody in this area . |
| 22 | It seems doubtful that any strong moral reaction can now set in although some backlash is already evident ; a dissident minority and a good many of the elderly will continue for a long time to object to what they see as moral decay . |
| 23 | We got away with it somehow , but it took a long time to live that one down . |
| 24 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |
| 25 | Most of these solutions would take a long time to implement . |
| 26 | The letter expresses four concerns about the TGAT report : that the assessment proposals require an enormously elaborate and complex system ; that there will be heavy reliance on teachers ' judgements in addition to the nationally prescribed tests ; that the costs will be considerable ; and that the new system will take a long time to implement . |
| 27 | quite a long time to implement , for example |
| 28 | The 1988–89 Committee spent a long time agonising over the problem of how to keep the broadcasters at arms length , so that their editors would not be able to provide the signal in ways that might be journalistically attractive but would be repugnant to Members . |
| 29 | In other words , if you have spent a long time writing programs to carry out tasks , you will have to start again from scratch . |
| 30 | The climatic extremes of the far north mean that forests take a long time to regenerate . |