Example sentences of "for a long time [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a long time that night too he had not slept , had lain thinking , wondering what to do , listening to the delicate sounds like tiny bubbles breaking — and then hearing them no more . |
| 2 | She lay awake for a long time that night , going over the conversation with her mother , trying to work out what she should say to Leo , and she rehearsed so many and varied conversations that she thought she 'd go mad . |
| 3 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
| 4 | Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan . |
| 5 | It had been known for a long time that histamine was responsible for producing many allergies and the first antihistamine drug was produced in France in 1937 . |
| 6 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 7 | We have also known for a long time that morphine cures diarrhoea . |
| 8 | Rigid solids are much harder to get hold of in tension and so for a long time such testing as was done was confined to compression and bending . |