Example sentences of "[pron] for a [adv] long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Lorne gazed at me for a very long time , in ripe candour . |
| 2 | Lorne gazed at me for a very long time again . |
| 3 | It was as if there was something out there — or perhaps several somethings — struggling to break free of a force that had held them for a very long time . |
| 4 | That last dangerous statement seemed to hang in the sunlit air between them for a very long time . |
| 5 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 6 | Nobody for a very long time afterwards felt the need to change things . |
| 7 | There are first of all those colleagues who for a very long time have consistently held to the view that Britain should not be a part of the Common Market . |
| 8 | I have been a friend of your wonderful Rabbi and of many of you for a very long time . |
| 9 | The trouble is , I want everything for a very long time — forever . ’ |
| 10 | For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years . |
| 11 | ‘ As far as the grassroots are concerned we have got one , and I hope we have her for a very long time . ’ |
| 12 | Last night 's humiliating episode would be with her for a very long time . |
| 13 | I 've wanted it for a very long time , and it will happen , I promise , but not now , not yet . ’ |
| 14 | I must have been misguiding myself for a very long time Mr . |
| 15 | Though these problems are a characteristic feature of modern life , they have been with us for a very long time . |
| 16 | Fashion and make-up have been with us for a very long time indeed — there are make-up palettes surviving from ancient Egypt — and although men in certain times and cultures may devote a lot of effort to their appearance , it has remained chiefly a feminine domain . |