Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] for a very long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet ironically , recent government policies have created a situation where more and more prisoners serving life and other long sentences have rather less to lose , for it has now been decreed that various categories of serious offender will not normally be considered for parole , or not considered for a very long time ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 2 | The inflation in the early stages of the universe , which the no boundary proposal predicts , means that the universe must be expanding at very close to the critical rate at which it would just avoid recollapse , and so will not recollapse for a very long time . |
| 3 | There was a flicker of response in them which Brian had not seen for a very long time . |
| 4 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 5 | They did n't speak for a very long time . |