Example sentences of "for a [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six thousand miles away , Jill and Peter felt they too had made an investment of their time and the company 's money and pleaded with Bernard for a little longer to educate the American customer . |
| 2 | With brightness masking , subjects report that although the target appeared to be present for a reasonably long period it was too vaguely defined — its contrast was too low for it to be identifiable . |
| 3 | Despite episcopal censures , the practice continued for a surprisingly long time ; measures were taken to stop Irish clergy so cohabiting as late as the sixth century . |
| 4 | It has become the drug of choice for the American armed forces and for the World Health Organization , and has survived against the threat of resistant strains for a surprisingly long time . |
| 5 | Shoulthwaite Ghyll remained in a very good condition for a surprisingly long period . |
| 6 | Basically , however , British cities ‘ got by ’ for a surprisingly long time . |
| 7 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 8 | Mr Deukmejian , who was elected governor in 1982 , has been trying for a mighty long time to get the death penalty enforced in California . |
| 9 | But he 'll have a sore head for a pretty long time , I should imagine . ’ |
| 10 | After I had been there one term , however , my father took one of his almost yearly visits to Africa , this time for a rather longer period of about four months . |
| 11 | Some have been living for a disconcertingly long time in museums ; but once doubted , the evidence of inadequacy in a fake is quite often soon in coming . |
| 12 | They may be attached to a particular school for a single day or even part of a day , or for a substantially longer period . |
| 13 | However , the considerations given earlier on overflow area size and the need to allow for a relatively long period between reorganizations will guide the designer to a reasonable compromise . |
| 14 | This effect persists for a relatively long time , and as there is a specific relationship between the stimuli and the responses , it is regarded as a genuine form of associative learning . |
| 15 | It should be borne in mind here that many trustees would be able to appoint the capital to relatively young beneficiaries so that the property might not be subject to a further charge for a relatively long period . |
| 16 | T n tracts of T 9 GCA 9 persist for a relatively long time adds further weight to the suggestion that these are caused by ligand-induced alterations in local DNA structure , rendering it more susceptible to attack by this nuclease . |
| 17 | Therefore , before a conclusion is reached , tests must be continued for a sufficiently long time to demonstrate an adequate shelf-life in the market concerned . |
| 18 | In other words , they have been allowed to grow and multiply for a sufficiently long time to produce large numbers of cells . |
| 19 | If subject to stress for a sufficiently long period of time all ‘ solid ’ materials are capable of flow . |
| 20 | However , if gains are kept offshore for a sufficiently long period of time , the return on investment may exceed the increased capital gains tax liability . |
| 21 | All you need to do is to be sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time and and his mates will turn around and throw up their hands and shak and and turn somersaults . |
| 22 | People who have intelligence and a conscience wrestle with these problems and we 've come to a conclusion which is as good a deal as we think we can get , with the people of the area and with the Labour party and I think he said that if people in this authority are sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time then people will change their minds . |
| 23 | But councillors are lokking for a more long term , solution … they 're to petion the county council for money for full time youth workers . |
| 24 | The 'phone rang for a very long time and when Mrs Pettifer eventually answered she sounded quite put out . |
| 25 | ‘ As far as the grassroots are concerned we have got one , and I hope we have her for a very long time . ’ |
| 26 | It has been a shareholder for a very long time in some private companies and I think we 've become known to be a supportive shareholder . |
| 27 | On the other hand all modern anthropologists and archaeologists would agree with the view that for a very long period of history mankind has existed solely by hunting , fishing , and gathering , and that such a technological stage always precedes domestication of plants and animals . |
| 28 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 29 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 30 | It is important to have been about for a very long time . |