Example sentences of "[prep] a long time [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like the sun coming out after a long time of darkness . |
| 2 | People vary in their ability to revert to being outgoing , social creatures after a long time of semi-confinement to the house . |
| 3 | which again has been used for a long time on animals . |
| 4 | The fact that hippies were so violently apolitical inspired a lot of my polemics for a long time on Oz . |
| 5 | I 've been saving for a long time with Alma |
| 6 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 7 | Llanelli and Neath put on a show as good as anything seen for a long time at club level . |
| 8 | For a long time after independence , English was the language of the educated élite , just as it had largely been that of the colonial administration . |
| 9 | José Napoleón Duarte , 64 , President of El Salvador in 1980-1982 and 1984-1989 , died on Feb. 23 after suffering for a long time from cancer . |
| 10 | Also , the slow course of the disease implied that any drug would have to be given for a long time in order to be effective and so would have to be particularly harmless to patients . |
| 11 | He must have saved up his pocket money for a long time in order to buy one of Uncle Philip 's masks . |
| 12 | It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate . |
| 13 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 14 | I 've a father in law who was er for a long time in charge of the erm er financial side of the P A Y E side of the er National Dental Estimates Board in Eastbourne in Sussex |
| 15 | OIL RICH beats filthy rich every time , but after several years of battling to remain buoyant in the remorseless wake of the Maktoums , Robert Sangster clambered back on to terra firma with his most significant win for a long time in Saturday 's Hoover Fillies ' Mile at Ascot . |
| 16 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 17 | He deliberated for a long time in front of the pad , and then suddenly rose and put it away without writing anything . |
| 18 | When he had gone , she stood for a long time in front of the looking-glass that hung over the fire , her hands pressed to her cheeks , her face quite alive with excitement . |
| 19 | This view remained dominant for a long time in sociology , but more recently other sociologists have become reluctant to view people as happy robots , acting out predetermined roles . |
| 20 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 21 | But the old Jew sat for a long time in silence as the wind and rain in the darkness outside lashed at the windows of Damiani 's old home . |
| 22 | They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone . |