Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] for a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tynedale Fenwicks and the Liddesdale Elliots were involved for a long time in a savage , unyielding feud ; and the Armstrongs , among their many clashes , quarrelled simultaneously with the Scottish Turnbulls and Johnstones and with the English Bells , while the Bells were also feuding with the English Grahams . |
| 2 | As lithium salts were not amenable to being patented , they did not attract the attention of the drug industry : also they had a bad reputation for their toxic effects , and so Cade 's findings were neglected for a long time . |
| 3 | But she , you know , it was built for a long time before she got anything in it . |
| 4 | It was thought for a long time that he was a Carthusian but there is no firm evidence for this . |
| 5 | British case at least , the problem of national or ethnic difference was masked for a long period by development occurring in the peripheries at the same rate and in similar ways to development in industrial England . |