Example sentences of "for a long time [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a long time Oxford English was directed towards scholarship and was suspicious of criticism , and this attitude was reflected in its house organ , The Review of English Studies . |
| 2 | As the hated capitalist rival , West Germany quickly took off with its economic miracle , for a long time East Germany remained poor , grim and repressive as the regime struggled to get a communist system working . |
| 3 | For a long time reading has been subject to a variety of fads and fashions . |
| 4 | For a long time dispersal of any book from a public library was considered anathema . |
| 5 | For a long time Roe has harboured a desire to do some commentating so when he had the chance at the European he took it with both hands . |
| 6 | For a long time Mait did n't answer , until a low chuckle gradually worked its way from his throat . |
| 7 | For a long time Annabel and Eddie Hogan sat in silence . |
| 8 | For a long time Laura had nurtured this dream , but Bernard well knew that selling products in your own shop at the same time as supplying other retailers was a risky undertaking ; the latter regarded it as unfair competition . |
| 9 | The other recalls what was for a long time Britain 's worst air disaster . |
| 10 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
| 11 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 12 | For a long time Europe offered me all I wanted . |
| 13 | For a long time Midnight crouched in the dark thicket , swimming between consciousness and fantasy . |
| 14 | For a long time KFW has been promoting in particular the small and medium scale sector of the economy , i.e. it grants loans at favourable interest rates to small and medium sized enterprises to make up for their specific financing disadvantages … |
| 15 | I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind . |
| 16 | For a long time Tess did not go with them . |
| 17 | For a long time Mr Fwancis did n't come but he did lots before he die like that . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ For a long time teenagers have dictated fashion . |
| 19 | I would like to acknowledge Norman 's excellence because the Garrick was sort of stuck in the past for a long time box set imitation stuff and Norman has sort of revitalized it made it extremely professional and it really did make a difference to the performances and I 'd like |
| 20 | For a long time Cindy 's only competition was a sad show called Style With Elsa Klensch , a yapping Aussie who looks like the missing link between Morticia and Uncle Fester in The Addams Family . |
| 21 | For a long time Bayonne was an English possession , having been part of the extensive territorial dowry of Eleanor of Aquitaine when she married into the Plantagenet family in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 22 | This is the best I 've seen them play for a long time Leicester |
| 23 | For a long time historians were happy to talk in terms of a basic struggle between Whigs and Tories during the reigns of William and Anne , whilst recognising that this occasionally broke down , and that for certain periods political battles were fought out along Court–Country lines . |
| 24 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 25 | For a long time Milton Keynes was the favoured location . |