Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a long time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 4 | I was very unhappy for a long time after that . |
| 5 | " It is a woman you will be then , Sara Hussey , " she whispered to herself , and lay awake for a long time after , watching a narrow strip of moonlight creep slowly across the wall . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As Mittwoch ( 1990 : 125 ) points out , however , the fact that historically make vacillated for a long time between to and zero ( cf. the biblical He maketh me to lie down in green pastures ) calls for a deeper explanation of why the bare infinitive won out . |
| 8 | The Commission on Analytical Nomenclature of IUPAC has been active for a long time in establishing nomenclature for chromatography . |