Example sentences of "[adv] [art] long time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June . |
| 2 | Fergus laughed rather a long time at this , and said tersely , ‘ I should . ’ |
| 3 | But we do talk and what I know is you are essentially a decent and totally wonderful human being and I 'll hang around a long time for you . |
| 4 | But the Inter City Firm from West Ham were around a long time before the Service Crew . |
| 5 | Some of them are rather like cave paintings are n't they and have they 've got this from my a sort of tedious association of the drawings and pictures and er Catherine 's it seems to be suggesting that animals were around , animals and other creatures were around a long time before human beings and that human beings are in some ways intruders therefore in their in their world . |
| 6 | The Quix supermarket had refused the box because they 'd ha although they 'd had it for a cert for quite a long time during the miner 's strike I think . |
| 7 | I mean he was married for quite a long time to her apparently . |
| 8 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 9 | But it 'll take quite a long time for them to go though . |
| 10 | If you plant a crop , it 's quite a long time before it |
| 11 | It came to light that er a great many of the members , a great many of the people who talked about their early experiences reported some sort of abusive experience , either y'know er quite a short one that went on over many many years you know that er if it was some relative or friend of the family they were likely to have been abused for quite a long time in some cases . |
| 12 | Thank you Mr Mayor erm a week is a quite a long time in housing but er er |
| 13 | erm for people who are getting information from various centres , yes , they would have known erm quite a long time in advance . |
| 14 | The activity was sustained for quite a long time by pupils who , according to their label , have difficulty sustaining anything . |
| 15 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
| 16 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 17 | Among their feudal ancestors however the long time during which estates used to continue in the same family sufficiently demonstrated the general disposition of people to live within their income . |