Example sentences of "for [adv] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interview need not be long but Sheila will have discovered that there are people who will listen and she is now more likely to take up any referral she is given for more long term counselling . |
| 2 | Gulfstream holds twelve letters of intent and initial deposits which it hopes to convert to firm contracts this month , and says that market studies suggest that the worldwide fleet of large bizjets will double over the next twelve years through increased globalisation of major businesses , fuelling demand for ultra long range aircraft . |
| 3 | For too long poetry 's been written by poets for poets . |
| 4 | For too long education has been a state within a state , with its own corporatist culture of welfare dependency , and levelling dogma and practice — practice for years endorsed and encouraged by the supposedly independent inspectorate of schools . |
| 5 | For too long water and sewage had been , quite literally , inextricably mixed in Paris , for seepage from cesspools and cemeteries rendered much of the water supply lethal . |