Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] for a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time . |
| 2 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 3 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 4 | Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’ |
| 5 | Both have gone on for a long time . |