Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] a very long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you , if you wait for a report from a salesman , you can wait for a very long time , the only piece of paper he really likes filling in is called an expense sheet . |
| 2 | They did n't speak for a very long time . |
| 3 | The inflation in the early stages of the universe , which the no boundary proposal predicts , means that the universe must be expanding at very close to the critical rate at which it would just avoid recollapse , and so will not recollapse for a very long time . |
| 4 | And the reverberations of that shared theory may last for a very long time , long after the institution which was its natural concomitant in day-to-day social practices has gone . |
| 5 | A good quality carpet should last for a very long time . |