Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a long time " in BNC.
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| 31 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 32 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 33 | This went on for a long time . |
| 34 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 35 | Oh , certainly , yes , yes , and and it carried on for a long time afterwards , and and I think is is still used in some selection processes . |
| 36 | The embrace went on for a long time , but Miguel kept his self-control , so that their kisses , although they grew sweeter and more languid , never became threatening . |
| 37 | It will go on for a long time but lost it is already . ’ |
| 38 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 39 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 40 | She had to leave the floor , they had to walk , that 's right , they had to walk on the concrete floor without tiles on for a long time |
| 41 | 85% of the woodland area is dominated by mature trees , indicating that grazing has been heavy enough for a long time to Prevent sapling recruitment . |
| 42 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 43 | She knew only , as they made their slow way along the beach back to the town , that she felt exhausted but peaceful , even momentarily carefree , as if she had shed burdens that had been weighing her down for a long time . |
| 44 | In the bite-shaped hollow , a small mound of viscous lava was growing and continued to do so for a long time afterwards . |
| 45 | Rigid solids are much harder to get hold of in tension and so for a long time such testing as was done was confined to compression and bending . |
| 46 | He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
| 49 | Well I think there were niggling little points in all the quarries , the workforce certainly has n't been happy up in for a long time . |
| 50 | ‘ We 've always been really good friends but had n't worked together for a long time . |
| 51 | They had lived together for a long time , but the sister was now reaching the conclusion that the situation could not continue much longer : |
| 52 | CHARLES and Diana will be together for a long time to come . |
| 53 | Earlier marriages with fewer children means that couples are together for a long time after their children have left home . |
| 54 | We splashed and laughed and played together for a long time , sharing their delight at looking underwater through a diving mask for the first time . |
| 55 | On my first visit , we sat together for a long time , talking of this and that . |
| 56 | Helen , with the baby only two weeks away , was very large indeed , but not too large for me to get my arms around her , and we stood there in the middle of the flagged floor clasped together for a long time with neither of us saying much . |
| 57 | The way I was doing the deal , everyone was going to have to work together for a long time . ’ |
| 58 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 59 | She went up to the bedroom to see Anna and they spoke together for a long time . ’ |
| 60 | They stood clasped together for a long time , then he bent his head and kissed her , softly at first , then with such increasing passion that she could feel his heart beating like a drum . |