Example sentences of "[conj] long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simulation tends to be used in problems where mathematical solutions are not possible , or where long time scales are involved ( eg predicting — population changes over a 30 year period ) , or where there is no other way of tackling the problem ( eg charting space-satellite trajectories ) . |
| 2 | Osteonecrosis is believed to be a result of ischaemia of the juxta-articular bone for either a short or long time . |
| 3 | Fragment A is more difficult to analyse as the evidence is incomplete and the habit of keeping to a set rate of progress may not have evolved at the A stage of composition ; but it could have been completed between June 1758 and April 1759 , in a shorter or longer time depending on whether he wrote one verse or three each day . |
| 4 | Ken Turk , the 67-year-old president and long time player for Hampshire club Hartley Wintney , collapsed and died at the wicket immediately after hitting a six against Shepherd 's Bush on May 3 . |
| 5 | Geoff Cox and professional Accountant , avid Practical PC reader and long time Dataease user John Brown team up for a look at Dataease 4.5 the latest version of the popular Dataease Database . |
| 6 | For as a girl , she herself had been taken through the world , as through a series of doors , by her young husband , each door opening on to fresh joys and colours and perspectives , and she had exclaimed in delight , followed him , learned , and even afterwards , when the final door had shut , she could retrace her steps , spend a longer and longer time in each place , as in a series of gardens , and gratefully . |
| 7 | But Long Time Companion 's comprehensive avoidance of manipulative devices and , not least , its sense of humour , ensures its authority both as drama and as a piece of fundamental optimism . |