Example sentences of "[adv prt] for a long [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will go on for a long time but lost it is already . ’ |
| 2 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 3 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 6 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 7 | I sighed and lingered over coffee because I know I 'd be in for a long session while I listened to June 's catalogue of woes . |
| 8 | For our purposes what matters is that RNA , or something like it , was around for a long time before it became self-replicating . |
| 9 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |