Example sentences of "for [adv] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’
2 Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’
3 Its brief revival was sparked by Dziekanowski who fed Tarasiewicz and for once a long shot had Shilton in trouble .
4 If the expectations hypothesis is valid , the expected return from the futures position is zero for both the long and the short ( see ( 8.17 ) ) .
5 If you build a relief road which is fairly tightly in to the built up area , that relief road will cater for both the long distance bypassable traffic and the local traffic .
6 Being directly overhead , the field is one of the worst positions from which to extricate yourself because you have to fly blind , away from the field , for quite a long time to get out to the side for a reasonable base leg .
7 I discovered that for quite a long part of their career , every Simon and Garfunkel recording used a set of distinctive and unusual percussion sounds .
8 For my hands were not together — They were holding another hand — I felt the weight and the warmth of it for quite a long time …
9 I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time .
10 I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house .
11 It survived for quite a long time , until the accumulating ash had built up to such a thickness that its chain would no longer allow it to keep above the ash , and it died , its dreadful last moments clearly visible in its taut body , arched back and straining neck .
12 Henry sat for quite a long time thinking about the conversation between Elinor and her mother as they hurtled down the Paso della Lagastrella , brakeless .
13 Nobody said anything after that for quite a long time .
14 The toy that I remember lasting for quite a long time was a beautifully made wooden engine with its tender and two trucks .
15 You had them for quite a long while .
16 I could no longer contain my emotion , but going down on my knees I wept as quietly as I could for quite a long while .
17 I waited for quite a long time .
18 That said , your fish will appreciate a good feed of , day , Daphnia , and enjoy chasing them for quite a long time , so the quantity is a little less critical than with prepared food .
19 ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years .
20 It is also advisable not to wear contact lenses , as you will have your eyes closed for quite a long time , usually about twenty minutes .
21 Linda Evangelista was brilliantly marketed but there was never quite the attention until she had been established for quite a long time . ’
22 For quite a long way , I think . ’
23 Then I worked for Jimmy Young for quite a long time … he saved my bacon .
24 Their kills tend to be rich in protein , providing enough energy to sustain them for quite a long time .
25 Right , now if we look on , erm we come to Regional Action Networks , another reason why Amnesty seems not to allocate more than one prisoner and all now is that they have expanded the ways in which we deal with prisoners and the world is more or less been divided up into areas , erm , of smaller regions and groups are asked to choose one or two regions to deal with particularly and we , we have for quite a long time now erm been concerned with Southern Africa and Central America and we get information through on prisoners and what 's happening in those two regions , so John do you have anything else on Africa at all ?
26 For quite a long time the prevailing view among economists had been that money does not affect the relative prices of commodities , but that it does determine the overall price level .
27 The adventure ties up a computer for quite a long time .
28 from er statement banks for pupils for quite a long time and why
29 That went on for quite a long time
30 Well here , here are char for example , this is a female , you see the , the white line on the fins and the very pale pink spots , this will actually get gradually more highly coloured until about December when they will be quite bright red , and , and in my opinion not a question really , but might be that some of these other ones are pretty nice as well here 's quite a , quite a dark little trout , probably been in the light for quite a long time , right now nevertheless that 's a female as well just a couple more famous small ones here , that 's a young salmon , that 's really a beauty .
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