Example sentences of "[not/n't] long [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it was like spaced it was just like , I du n no , not long at all just a |
| 2 | ‘ Not long to the big day now , Mother , ’ he said . |
| 3 | It was too late not to finish the sentence and she already knew what the sentence meant anyway … ‘ not long for this world — on his way out — dying ’ … words which were impossible to say . |
| 4 | It was a raw , damp and cold Cornwall winter and , not long into the shooting , Peckinpah contracted ‘ flu which developed into pneumonia . |
| 5 | It was not long before the two families were joined with ties other than zeal for their faith and a deep devotion to its outworking . |
| 6 | Despite the general activities there is menace in the air and it is not long before the rival factions of Montagues and Capulets are fighting and deaths occurring before the lovers even meet . |
| 7 | It was not long before the chairman of each local railway-board was compelled to become a representative of the central Commissariat . |
| 8 | It was not long before the dynamics of politics made such niceties quite irrelevant , The bulk of the Labour party came out in opposition , not only to the National Government , but to any economies , even those which the Labour Cabinet had agreed . |
| 9 | The earliest examples involved simple mechanical attachment , but it was not long before more permanent and more economical methods of gilding and silvering were developed . |
| 10 | When she had won the Coronation Cup a wart was beginning to grow on her belly , and this had been lanced not long before the Gold Cup . |
| 11 | However , it was not long before the Gospel preached by Richard Baxter began to change her life . |
| 12 | He also inherited the western part of Aquitaine , which had been added to the kingdom by conquest in 767 , not long before his father 's death . |
| 13 | P. Ransome-Wallis remarked that one platform would have sufficed for the traffic , and indeed it was not long before Trinidad 's railways , together with those of all the smaller West Indian islands , were shut down . |
| 14 | But it was not long before the harsh facts of economic and social life exerted their pressure . |
| 15 | But it was not long before symptoms of the hypochondria which had always been present showed themselves in strength . |
| 16 | His Confessions , written not long before the Fall of Rome , was an even more original form of literature than Rousseau 's written more than a thousand years later , for it was the first true autobiography . |
| 17 | This done , it was not long before the advantages of trusts in creating rights in third parties came to be seen and to be put to good use . |
| 18 | The high proportion of suicide attempters who visit their general practitioners not long before making attempts has already been noted ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 19 | The little girl persuaded her mother to share some of her memories of her dancing life , though in secret from Sam : and it was not long before Marjorie inevitably developed an ambition to become a Tiller Girl herself . |
| 20 | One thing is certain , that the last Lord Derwentwater , not long before his death , was frequently at Keswick , but according to Green it is not equally certain , that he then ( as is affirmed by some ) inhabited the house upon the island ; on the contrary , it rather seems that his being at Keswick , was only on visits from his family place at Dilston . |
| 21 | It was not long before a cheaper method of making it became possible . |
| 22 | Usually it is not long before the female members of his family , and the wives of his friends and neighbours , come to his rescue to ‘ mother ’ him through the period of his grieving and depression , and some , whose children have grown up and left home , will find great pleasure in doing so . |
| 23 | The most popular leaders ( Boris Yeltsin , Anatoly Sobchak , Gavriil Popov ) had ostentatiously left the party in 1990 or not long before the 1991 August coup ( as Eduard Shevardnadze , Alexander Yakovlev and Alexander Rutskoi had done ) . |
| 24 | Although the smaller Saxon churches were usually wooden and have not survived it was not long before more ambitious priests and their patrons turned to stone buildings . |
| 25 | It 's not long before an ex who in reality was a size-12 middle manager who played badminton and cooked a moderately engaging moussaka has become Super Ex — the international top model and cordon bleu squash champion with a masters degree in astrophysics . |
| 26 | It was not long before the South Metropolitan Company 's omnibus proposals came up again and ten Daimler double deck buses were ordered in 1913 , but Daimler were unable to complete them on time and ten L.G.O.C 's ‘ B ’ type chassis with Brush bodies were substituted in July . |
| 27 | Not long before all this , he had been asked how he felt about his sex-symbol image . |
| 28 | But it was not long before the dominance of news about ministers and politics at the centre drew protest from MPs , who said that news from their respective areas of the country was not being heard . |
| 29 | And not long before leaving England I 'd read a newspaper item revealing that a Gauguin landscape bought by another novelist , Hugh Walpole , in 1924 for £145 would now in the thirties be worth around £6,000 , and that Hermann Goering in Nazi Germany had recently paid Alfred Krupp the armaments boss 10,000 Reichmarks for another of the wayward artist 's pictures . |
| 30 | And so the group waited , and waited , until not long before dusk the sea raged in ‘ with great impetus ’ , and the process of annexation could begin . |