Example sentences of "[verb] for a long time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Like the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs , they were successful and varied for a long time , but all three groups failed to survive the Cretaceous . |
| 32 | In times of expansion , developments can be additive , and it is easier for new subjects to become institutionally — as distinct from academically — accepted ( doubts can linger for a long time ) . |
| 33 | Memories of the last will linger for a long time to come . |
| 34 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 35 | The last has for a long time been the argument most favoured by political theorists . |
| 36 | For example , it has for a long time been generally accepted by students of organisation that any organisation is likely to need a number of rules and procedures to guide the behaviour of organisational members . |
| 37 | The geographical concentration of the relatively high per capita income services — especially in finance — in London and the South East has for a long time been a feature of the British economy [ Brown , 1972 ] . |
| 38 | Special education has for a long time been fertile ground for curricula based on linear models of learning , guided and assessed through hierarchies of objectives . |
| 39 | Safety , which has for a long time been assumed to be at odds with commercial considerations , is now a business interest . |
| 40 | Given that many of these theories require extremely detailed specifications of grammar rules and lexical entries this has for a long time formed an obstacle to the production of general systems . |
| 41 | High acidity of the duodenal contents has for a long time been found to be associated with gastric metaplasia , both in humans and in laboratory animals . |
| 42 | Organ jazz has for a long time been club-trendy but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and ‘ Big ’ John Patton with whom she shares a clear affinity in her choice of rhythms and blues inflections . |
| 43 | Many people were therefore trapped for a long time . |
| 44 | This achieves much more in the long run than attempting to concentrate for a long time until fatigue sets in . |
| 45 | Watching the Trooper disappear up the road , I reckon it could go on trooping for a long time yet at the right price , with very little needing doing . |
| 46 | We kiss for a long time , then I straighten up . |
| 47 | Do they survive for a long time ? |
| 48 | He would gaze for a long time and , when Gabriel had finished his tasks , would settle again until the ghost reinforced itself somewhere else a few days later . |
| 49 | As an apologist , he seems totally blind to the fact that the New Testament is just such a collection of old books , which require , if we are to understand them aright , patience and a willingness to listen to scholars who have meditated for a long time on the nature of the ( often quite puzzling and contradictory ) material which they contain . |
| 50 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 51 | Finally , the most convincing evidence for residual function in animals comes from studies using very coarse stimuli that are presented for a long time . |
| 52 | I stood outside his door listening for a long time ; there was n't a sound . |
| 53 | This has been one of the best Friday debates that I have attended for a long time . |
| 54 | The view that aggression is an integral part of human nature has been strongly argued for a long time by exceptionally articulate and persuasive individuals . |
| 55 | We have argued for a long time that there is a peripheral argument that in the strategic interests of the nation we should be concerned about the coal industry . |
| 56 | I 've been saving for a long time with Alma |
| 57 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 58 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 59 | At first he felt more relaxed than he had done for a long time . |
| 60 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |