Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 2 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 4 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 5 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 6 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 7 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
| 8 | He 's probably going away for a long time , that 's why . |
| 9 | I 'm going abroad for a short time … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 11 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 12 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 13 | Shrouded in snow and shivering with cold , I arrive at the door of the friary , and after calling out for a long time , the brother porter gets up and asks : ‘ Who is it ? ’ |
| 14 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 15 | Peter , ignoring his brother 's gibe about missing the sunsets , went to the window and stood gazing out for a long time without speaking . |
| 16 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 17 | ‘ Because I 'm working here for a short time . |