Example sentences of "can [verb] [adv] long [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The older the child the longer you can wait so long as there are no other signs of serious illness . |
| 2 | ‘ He has enough sauce for a king 's fool , but impudence I can stomach so long as I do n't have to ride something that big on my own . ’ |
| 3 | Creating a game from a film costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can take as long as making the movie . |
| 4 | Settlement can be a drawn out affair and can take as long as six months or more from the time your debt became overdue . |
| 5 | I have walked it in a day , but it can take as long as a week to complete . |
| 6 | It can take as long as two weeks after you give your blood sample before you get your result , which can be a difficult and stressful time . |
| 7 | The coarse grist can take as long as six months , by which time many plants that are intended to benefit will have long since gone . |
| 8 | First you are told that you can take as long as you like to put the counters in the jar . |
| 9 | BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place . |
| 10 | Unless sent by an air courier , an ocean bill of lading can take as long as a week to arrive by air mail . |
| 11 | It is our experience that from appointment to completion , the sale of a company can take as long as six months or , perhaps , longer . |
| 12 | The Intifada was perhaps the most convincing refutation ever of the time- honoured , complacent dogma that ‘ the status quo can last as long as we want it to . ’ |