Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 2 | ‘ They were apparently going away for a long weekend vacation . |
| 3 | He 's probably going away for a long time , that 's why . |
| 4 | He had abruptly spurred ahead of her then without replying , and they had ridden without speaking further for a long while . |
| 5 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 6 | He finished fourth to Baies and The Thinker at Haydock last week , running well for a long way . |