Example sentences of "a [adv] long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has taken the rest of industry in this country a remarkably long time to come around to his viewpoint , but it is finally looking as though the penny has dropped . |
| 2 | Two men were taking a suspiciously long time on a roof . |
| 3 | Normally you will want to use full side-slip for a few seconds rather than a small amount of slip for a much longer time . |
| 4 | We will only know the answer to this and many other questions when televising has continued for a much longer time . |
| 5 | It works less , rests more , and consequently takes a much longer time to wear out . |
| 6 | You can borrow any sum from £7,500 for any purpose including any kind of home improvements and your loan will be secured by a mortgage on your property which means a lower rate of interest and a much longer time to repay . |
| 7 | The phrase ‘ community participation ’ has been used for a much longer time . |
| 8 | Grammatical change occurs over a much longer time scale than lexical change . |
| 9 | The major difference appears to be that of timescale ; perfusion is spread over a much longer time scale than arterial infusion . |
| 10 | We 've got to look at it in those terms , and so it is not necessary in my submission for anyone to prove at the moment there is at least five thousand dwellings short , erm that that is something which ought to be considered over a much longer time period . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In other words , they have been allowed to grow and multiply for a sufficiently long time to produce large numbers of cells . |
| 13 | The data reported by Kovacs in section 12.9 imply that the observed T g would decrease further if a sufficiently long time for measurement was allowed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They are the basis for the audible component of belching through oesophagopharyngeal passage of gas and occur independently of swallowing , having a somewhat longer time course than the UOS relaxation induced by swallowing . |
| 17 | He took a terribly long time to clean his hands . |
| 18 | The record 's gone through a lot of transformations and taken a hellaciously long time to get done . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ No , really — think about the last time you went a day without wearing make-up and I bet it would be a frighteningly long time ago . ’ |
| 20 | The display on consumption utilises the age-old trick of piling up an adult 's average monthly intake of food ( enormous amounts of chocolate ) and invites the visitor to burn off excess calories on an ‘ Energy Bike ’ ( it does , of course , take a depressingly long time to nullify the effect of just one grape ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | property thus recoverable developed a set of legal characteristics which caused it to differ considerably from property which was recoverable only by a personal action ; and so , though the real actions have long been abolished , and for a still longer time disused , the differences between real and personal property survived . |
| 23 | Mr Deukmejian , who was elected governor in 1982 , has been trying for a mighty long time to get the death penalty enforced in California . |
| 24 | This can be contrasted with the centesimal scale where we may have to wait a fairly long time to ascertain the action of the remedy . |
| 25 | Perhaps , if left for long enough girls may kill one another also , but it would have taken a far longer time to happen . |
| 26 | A brine crock is great for storing runner beans for a really long time . |
| 27 | Du n no people have said like that will last a really short time or a really long time , but what 's considered a short time I know what a long time is , a long time is like sort of four months three sort of four months onwards in n it for like people our age , what would a short time be they ? |
| 28 | Closing her eyes , she melted into his embrace , willingly parted her mouth for him — and she truly had n't known , until now , how many ways there were to kiss — or what a gloriously long time it would take to discover them all . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |