Example sentences of "[adv] for a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I went to the sink and turned the cold tap on for a long drink to combat the dehydration . |
| 4 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 5 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 6 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 7 | The extension of the theatre of war to south-eastern Europe had , despite the German triumph , led to increased concern that the war could now drag on for a long time . |
| 8 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 9 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 10 | ‘ It dragged on for a long time afterwards . |
| 11 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 12 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 13 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 14 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 16 | ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 18 | That is to say , if a stress is left on for a long time , wood will gradually run away from the load . |
| 19 | The list could go on for a long time . |
| 20 | This is another list that could go on for a long time . |
| 21 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 22 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 23 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 24 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 25 | The argument will go on for a long time . |
| 26 | That went on for a long time . |
| 27 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 28 | Both have gone on for a long time . |
| 29 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 30 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |