Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] a long time " in BNC.

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1 This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation .
2 We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here .
3 We stood there a long time watching , heads tipped back , neck muscles beginning to ache .
4 We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight .
5 Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time !
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