Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] for [art] long time " in BNC.

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1 Luce buried her face against Michele 's neck and for a long time they sat without moving or speaking .
2 Miss Picon and her husband were so profoundly affected by their experiences that for a long time after their return to New York they were unable to work .
3 There is of course no need to be unduly alarmed at these discrepancies ; we should reflect that any normal language presents numerous instances where certain recalcitrant items refuse to fit into a generally acceptable pattern ( e.g. for no very obvious reason the " expected " adverbs difficultly and longly are not accepted in English and have to be replaced by the phrases with difficulty and for a long time . )
4 I attended the funeral and for a long time afterwards we , as a family , used to take flowers to the grave .
5 Using drugs can be dangerous , especially when they 're taken in excess or for a long time , or in the wrong combinations .
6 But Joseph had always been very devoted to any local news and for a long time the talk of the town had been the Cockermouth man — Fletcher Christian 's — Mutiny .
7 Before 18 months , a child wo n't recognise herself in the mirror and for a long time will describe herself in terms of attributes ( like smallness ) and her possessions .
8 The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them .
9 Another legacy of the French period of broadcasting is the fact that for a long time few such stations broadcast in African languages : radio services in the Ivory Coast are dominated by the French language even today .
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