Example sentences of "around [prep] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time .
2 As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time .
3 The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time .
4 It will be around for a long time .
5 Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time .
6 She 'll be around for a long time yet . ’
7 Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic .
8 Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago .
9 For our purposes what matters is that RNA , or something like it , was around for a long time before it became self-replicating .
10 The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems .
11 REGARDLESS of how much longer Norman Lamont survives at No 11 , his Budget will be around for a long time .
12 Of Records , Laurie Bruce writes : ‘ Many people are giving up records for cassettes or compact discs – a great mistake as records will be around for a long time to come .
13 Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers .
14 Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year .
15 Is this a new disease , something we 've discovered recently , or has it been around for a long time ?
16 In looking for the answers , let us begin with those citizens who have been around for the longest time — the elderly and those in later middle age .
17 She seemed , to Tammuz , quite agitated , pacing up and down behind her desk , swishing around in a long , belted gown .
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