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Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for a long 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	He 's probably going away for a long time , that 's why .
8	‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’
9	Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’
10	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 .
11	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 ? ’
12	Peter , ignoring his brother 's gibe about missing the sunsets , went to the window and stood gazing out for a long time without speaking .
13	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 .