Example sentences of "be for long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trauma underlying religion , which has been for long periods of time forgotten , remaining latent in the unconscious , was also a mixture of sexuality and aggression . |
| 2 | She ai n't been for long while has she ? |
| 3 | That 's the way it had been for longer than she could remember . |
| 4 | ‘ Your kind are known to us , Doctor , and have been for longer than you can imagine . ’ |
| 5 | Because the tentacled exter was a living legend — of crime — as he had been for longer than I 'd been alive . |
| 6 | I was mean-minded enough to wish it had been for longer . |
| 7 | They may be for longer periods of time , for various investment purposes . |
| 8 | This is not the most Basque part of the Basque country because it is too built-up and , in the case of Biarritz , too chic ; but everyone should go at least to Saint-Jean-de-Luz , emphatically a Basque town and still in living touch with the ocean of which , as fishermen or on occasion as pirates , the Basques were for long leading citizens . |
| 9 | By early in the seventeenth century several of the states of Europe — France , England , the Dutch republic , Venice — already had permanent diplomatic representatives more or less securely established in Constantinope ( though the English and Dutch ones at least were for long concerned above all merely with the fostering of their countries ' trade : the former continued to be paid not by the British government but by a group of merchants , the Levant Company , until as late as the 1820s ) . |
| 10 | In any case many rulers were for long reluctant to send ambassadors to foreign capitals if a lower-ranking representative would suffice . |
| 11 | In contrast , when the laser is inhomogeneously broadened , the experiments were for long in advance of the theory , as we shall see below . |
| 12 | With Charles 's appearance , Walahfrid 's tone becomes more specific , warmer and more personal : I saw too how lovely Rachel led forward Benjamin , comfort of his ancestors , with her right hand , in due order : His great well-being is for long to nurture someone 's holy old-age . |
| 13 | Oh I think that occurred about erm , I mean now the , the trend is for long erm chromium stems you know with lights coming out of all different angles and they are very decorative in a very modern house and that will be |
| 14 | ‘ It will go on being like it is for longer . ’ |
| 15 | Glasgow was for long suspicious of ‘ the electricity ’ , and St Enoch 's Station and the General Post Office remained the sole public buildings lit by the new method until the 1890s . |