Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] for [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been so afraid for so long that you 'd never care for me … |
| 2 | ‘ We were so good for so long that we took it for granted . |
| 3 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 4 | These heavily tattooed men , now unemployed civilians , were so drunk for so long that they could barely talk or even sit up . |
| 5 | No harm in that : pedestrian documentation is what there is a call for — Pound himself , and his admirers emulating him , have been so sprightly for so long that they have persuaded people they , and he , can not be in earnest . |
| 6 | So even when prices do fall very low for quite long periods of time , alright , farmers will still maintain production , even they 're making losses . |
| 7 | I believe that the large supermarkets have had it too good for too long . |
| 8 | I had the club already going , was dealing with mainly young people , and as you will know young people 's taste tends to vary quite considerably and very quickly , so I might well be very successful for so long and then if suddenly taste changed and I had n't got the ability to change with the times I realized that it would be rather precarious , so I needed a second string to my bow . |