Example sentences of "[adv prt] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least I do n't mean that — not a good show for you , I know — but frankly when you 've been down a long time it is a good show to see someone from home and get all the news . |
| 2 | The CEGB would perhaps be more fully convincing in its argument on fuel diversity if it could show that it had more real commitment to the development and use over a long time scale of renewable-energy technologies . |
| 3 | He moved over a long time ago from playing an SG Standard and an ES-345 when he found his beloved fixed-bridge ‘ 64 Stratocaster , which is standard apart from an extra treble-boost toggle switch . |
| 4 | However , this does not persist over a long time scale and is often not to be observed at all . |
| 5 | Rattling in the chest ; every cold goes to the chest or nose and the catarrh hangs on a long time . |
| 6 | There had been windows on the westerly side of the school , but they appeared to have been built up a long time , judging from the appearance of the workmanship on the outside . |
| 7 | Your husband probably senses that you do n't admire or respect him and he obviously does n't trust you , which is why he pulled the drawbridge up a long time ago . |
| 8 | You see , these up here 's been up a long time . |
| 9 | They 've been out a long time colleagues , seventeen weeks . |
| 10 | It always pays to stick as closely to the truth as possible , I found that out a long time ago . |
| 11 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 12 | This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy . |
| 13 | Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think . |
| 14 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |
| 15 | well that 's going back a long time , is n't it ? |
| 16 | But we do talk and what I know is you are essentially a decent and totally wonderful human being and I 'll hang around a long time for you . |
| 17 | But the Inter City Firm from West Ham were around a long time before the Service Crew . |
| 18 | Because the common holly , Ilex aquifolium , has been around a long time and produced many ornamental varieties , you will find quite a few with fancy botanical names . |
| 19 | He is also much younger , 23 , than I thought — he seemed to have been around a long time . |
| 20 | Paul 's verdict : Bags have been around a long time now and Rohan can justifiably claim to have prompted other companies to come up with versions of their original . |
| 21 | Work by Dolores Piperno , at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama , shows that maize has indeed been around a long time . |
| 22 | And , of course , having been around a long time . |
| 23 | But as I 've already mentioned distributed database theory has been around a long time . |
| 24 | Some have been around a long time , others are of more recent origins . |
| 25 | Some of them are rather like cave paintings are n't they and have they 've got this from my a sort of tedious association of the drawings and pictures and er Catherine 's it seems to be suggesting that animals were around , animals and other creatures were around a long time before human beings and that human beings are in some ways intruders therefore in their in their world . |
| 26 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |
| 27 | Been around a long time . |
| 28 | Belmodes had been around a long time . |
| 29 | It 's been around a long time , as they say ? |
| 30 | The hon. Gentleman asks whether we could debate them after they have been debated in the European Community , but we are talking about a long time ahead . |