Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] a long [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He loved life , and for a long time the force was with him . |
| 2 | Eventually , the bloody turf wars ceased , and for a long time the authorities either winked at their illegal trade or even helped themselves to the till . |
| 3 | But Joseph had always been very devoted to any local news and for a long time the talk of the town had been the Cockermouth man — Fletcher Christian 's — Mutiny . |
| 4 | One might call this ‘ applied phonology ’ ; however , the phonological analysis of different languages raises a great number of difficult and interesting theoretical problems , and for a long time the study of phonology ‘ for its own sake ’ has been regarded as an important area of theoretical linguistics . |
| 5 | Wordsworth continues to watch , but for a long time the figure refuses to move . |
| 6 | Probably the original intention was merely to contrast the procedure with that of a public inquiry ( where , of course , the inquiry is in full view of the public ) but for a long time the bogy of officials beavering away in private and then producing a report which damned some poor individual or organisation , without those officials being in any way accountable , was viewed with grave suspicion . |
| 7 | In the modern Hebrew Bible all numbers are written out in full , but for a long time the text was written without vowels . |
| 8 | I accept that the number of immigration officers at Heathrow has increased , but for a long time the numbers employed were well below what was required . |