Example sentences of "[art] [adv] long time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unexpectedly long time between initial bleed and randomisation in the surgery and sclerotherapy groups ( 26 and 20 days respectively ) was caused by several factors : ( i ) If rebleeding occurred randomisation was delayed until stability for a minimum of five days and been achieved . |
| 2 | Two men were taking a suspiciously long time on a roof . |
| 3 | The data reported by Kovacs in section 12.9 imply that the observed T g would decrease further if a sufficiently long time for measurement was allowed . |
| 4 | Some have been living for a disconcertingly long time in museums ; but once doubted , the evidence of inadequacy in a fake is quite often soon in coming . |
| 5 | Many in the Labour movement were prepared to admit that without a strong combination forcing the National Government out of office " we may not get a chance for a very long time of putting into effect our ultimate aims " . |
| 6 | Solid drinking ‘ Two years ago I had a one-day relapse after a very long time of being sober . |
| 7 | It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost . |
| 8 | They waited a very long time for his answer . |
| 9 | The Opposition replied , ’ That was 10 years ago ’ , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Teignbridge ( Mr. Nicholls ) , whom I commend for this observation , said , that 10 years was a very long time for the Leader of the Opposition and 10 minutes was about the average length of every policy that he had put forward . |
| 10 | Christian festivals had coexisted for a very long time with ancient non-Christian celebrations . |
| 11 | He took a very long time over it and in the end just lipped the hole . |
| 12 | Frankly , she could survive in great happiness for a very long time without ever setting eyes on him again . |
| 13 | For her part , Mrs Thatcher emphasised that the references to future German unity in the declaration was ‘ a very carefully drafted section and we spent a very long time on it ’ . |
| 14 | Owen O'Neil agrees : ‘ There 's no major comedy circuit in Northern Ireland in the way there is in London , but people have survived for a very long time on the strength of their own sense of humour . ’ |
| 15 | It has been a shareholder for a very long time in some private companies and I think we 've become known to be a supportive shareholder . |
| 16 | We waited a very long time in growing unease . |
| 17 | It is a factor recognised for a very long time in relation to language learning . |
| 18 | Yes ar are not that good but I 'm working at it on a sort of regional basis erm but you may have to keep me here for a very long time in order to achieve it . |
| 19 | It would evidently be impossible to resume normal living conditions for a very long time after fallout of the assumed density . ’ |
| 20 | The oldest pieces of amber we have date from a hundred million years ago , a very long time after the conifers and the flying insects first appeared , but they contain a huge range of creatures , including representatives of all the major insect groups that we know today . |
| 21 | → When you think of Fender 's seeming unwillingness to bring the reissues of the Indie-cred Jaguar into this country , Jim , I think we 'll probably wait a very long time before a Bass VI emanates from anywhere other than the Fender Custom Shop — a facility available to the wad-carrying fanatic . |
| 22 | He waited a very long time before saying , ‘ Talk , talk , talk , a man ca n't get a word in edgeways . ’ |
| 23 | She waited what seemed an interminably long time before the same young maid again confronted her . |
| 24 | In the meantime Emilia was in her room still , fussing for an unconscionably long time over her appearance . |
| 25 | The Gaullist conception of state broadcasting would prove an unconscionably long time in dying-in May 1986 Communications Minister Léotard still referred to the need to reduce state control — ‘ la desétatisation de l'audiovisuel ’ . |
| 26 | He watched her fumble for an intentionally long time in her handbag for the means of lighting the Turkish cigarette she held aloft in her left hand , only a foot or so away from Mark 's head . |
| 27 | A pitched battle followed between the constable and his two protagonists , an engagement that was to last for ten to twelve minutes , an exceptionally long time for an affray . |
| 28 | Beat it for ten minutes , that 's it seems an awfully long time to just stand there and . |
| 29 | A week can be an awfully long time in political journalism . |
| 30 | ‘ It might seem like an awful long time to be working on a debut album , but we 're were n't going to be rushed , ’ says Dermot . |