Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
2 | If we were to add those provisions to the Bill , I fear that we might not fall within the long title of the Bill . |
3 | The Basle exchange too , with a turnover only a seventh that of Zurich , may not survive in the longer term if Swiss Bank Corporation , its biggest trader , decides to pull out . |
4 | To a certain extent it does not matter how well a product performs if the user takes a strong dislike to it then it will not succeed in the long run . |
5 | These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate . |
6 | Lions are strong but can not run for a long time . |
7 | Sir David Alliance , Coats chairman , said the sales were part of Coats ' continuing policy of disposing of peripheral activities that do not fit in the long term strategy of the group . |
8 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
9 | Thus we have Macdonald reporting on the " almost unanimous chorus of opinion that women 's work as compositors is so inferior to men 's that it does not pay in the long run " ( the chorus in question being from employers ) But the testimony of individual employers is far from unanimous or even consistent . |
10 | One enterprising station-master frequently told all passengers that their trains would not leave for a long time . |
11 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
12 | These , he says , were not overcome without a long struggle . |
13 | I am not talking about the long run , he wrote . |
14 | And it 's easier in the short term not to have In the long term you get more problems . |
15 | Anyway , we thought it would be suitably ironic and some sort of justice for having been booted off the Argent tour to cover that song , especially as Argent have not existed for a long time . |
16 | But do not be downhearted if your story is not taken up , or indeed ousted at the last moment because a major story comes up : your campaign will not suffer in the long run . |
17 | Susie did not reply for a long time . |
18 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
19 | Now that 's an English expression I have n't heard in a long time . |
20 | And I know so many songs that it would be fun to go out there and say , ‘ Hey , man , do you remember this one ? ’ or , ‘ Here 's one you have n't heard in a long time . ' ’ |
21 | What we did n't know for a long time was that this book is his revenge on his parents . |
22 | " You do n't know what your talking about , " Katherine began , experiencing a deep burning rage that she had n't felt for a long time , a rage all the more intense because she knew she could do nothing about it . |
23 | Yeah , mind you his , his short er term policies so it does n't matter in the long run . |
24 | Mummy was there it did n't feel like a long day did it ? |
25 | Kate has a sensitivity and a gentleness in her face that we have n't seen for a long time . ’ |
26 | No , she actually just , I have n't seen for a long time so she can have one of these . |
27 | ‘ I have hit shots this week I have n't seen in a long time . |
28 | There was an expression on her face I had n't seen in a long time . |
29 | Ah , now this is the one I have n't done for a long time , now this is the one |
30 | Oh well if you have n't had chi or have n't done for a long time you enjoy them . |