Example sentences of "n't [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 2 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 3 | No , she , she said that erm , did n't stay very long , but |
| 4 | Er some neighbours cut each other 's lawn while they 're away so the grass does n't grow too long and make sure that the mail 's moved away from the letter box . |
| 5 | Oh I have n't got that long to make them , yet am I ? |
| 6 | But if you 're sixty five you have n't got much longer to go have you ? |
| 7 | I do n't know I did n't stare that long . |
| 8 | They looked pretty good — all colourful and that , but I did n't stop too long to watch them . |
| 9 | It has n't seemed that long because for ten of them she was on the phone and another ten in shoe shops . |
| 10 | ‘ It ca n't take too long to prepare Wavebreaker for a long voyage , can it ? ’ |
| 11 | The last bit of ascent into the upper coire is stony , but it does n't take too long to cross the ice-worn boiler plates to reach the lovely little lochan nestling there . |
| 12 | So that 's it for this week , sorry we did n't have room for our promised body building item , I 've been told to work on my pecs before we get back to it and er it should n't take too long . |
| 13 | Erm I hope it did n't take too long to read our statement . |
| 14 | But they hope it wo n't take too long or they 'll be rocking around the grandfather clock . |
| 15 | Do n't take too long then cos that water 's pretty cold quick then have you eaten that all up Charlotte ? |
| 16 | Yesterday things looked pretty hopeful but that it would n't take too long to get the whole thing sorted out , but I must admit things seem to be escalating and getting a lot worse now . |
| 17 | because kidney do n't take as long to cook |
| 18 | I know , but it wo n't take as long for her to get there as it would if she becomes a doctor |
| 19 | I know , but it wo n't take as long for her to get there as it will if she becomes a doctor . |
| 20 | The beauty of small lightweight expeditions is that they do n't take that long . |
| 21 | And it does n't take that long . |
| 22 | I 'm sorry , it 's probably me I 'm , ma maybe it does n't take that long . |
| 23 | it should n't take that long |
| 24 | ha , ha , I bet you will , it wo n't take that long to unpick it though but I mean you 've got a , quite a selection there to choose have n't you ? |
| 25 | It wo n't take that long . |
| 26 | It does n't take very long to master shaping methods and fairly soon the shaping can be hand-tooled with scarcely a check to the actual knitting while we attend to it . |
| 27 | ‘ I was , frankly , surprised , but did n't take very long to make up my mind that this was not an invitation you could refuse … or that I wanted to refuse . ’ |
| 28 | Now here of course , and , and by now we 've reached the closing pages of the book , though it 's actually quite a short book , erm , it does n't take very long to read . |
| 29 | three discs so that wo n't take very long . |
| 30 | or what have you , but erm , it do n't take very long |