Example sentences of "a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a long time deemed a white , Western organization , the setting up of section sin countries like Tunisia , Algeria and South Korea , are ample illustration of Amnesty 's worldwide stature . |
| 2 | Some latitude can be allowed to serious critics who write for periodicals which go to press a long time before a show is on view ; these critics will not be able to comment on how the exhibition actually looks , as their articles will have been written before the show 's installation . |
| 3 | She begins by recalling a remark made to her a long time ago by Larkin , about difficulties encountered in his private life — a remark which consisted of a joke to do with ‘ the impossibility of relations between men and women ’ , followed by the notion that ‘ women ought really to marry each other ’ , followed by ‘ but that would be wrong , would n't it ? ’ |
| 4 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 5 | I think it 's all over for a long time . |
| 6 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |
| 7 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 8 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 9 | Had been dreaming about this for a long time , he wrote . |
| 10 | Yesterday he rang the bell for a long time but no point in opening the door . |
| 11 | As though all this had happened a long time ago . |
| 12 | They were in there for a long time . |
| 13 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 14 | The festival is also screening POISON , one of the most controversial American films for a long time , which has caused storms of protest in the States and will be a film that has everyone talking . |
| 15 | A long time ago now though . |
| 16 | ‘ That was all a long time ago now . ’ |
| 17 | She insisted on having wine with the meal , and as I had n't had a drink in a long time , it made me feel rather tipsy . |
| 18 | Most private owners discovered the use of a tail and wing-tip dolly a long time ago , making it possible to tow out with a car single-handedly on most days . |
| 19 | Being directly overhead , the field is one of the worst positions from which to extricate yourself because you have to fly blind , away from the field , for quite a long time to get out to the side for a reasonable base leg . |
| 20 | For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward . |
| 21 | Said a lot of things I 've been meaning to for a long time . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ A long time for a claim to run . ’ |
| 24 | It was a long time since she had last seen Michael : it was seven months , two weeks and three days , four if she counted today . |
| 25 | She took a long time to dress . |
| 26 | It was a long time ago . |
| 27 | He has only expressed what a lot of other people have been starting to fear for a long time , that unless the commercial manipulators in tennis are careful , they could cook the golden goose . |
| 28 | It has been a long time since the women 's game has been so open ; hopefully it will continue . |
| 29 | As a long time drinker of real ale , who has only joined CAMRA in the last year , I found this belly-aching very annoying . |
| 30 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |