Example sentences of "[noun] for a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been at ITN for a long time and come from a traditional news background . |
| 2 | ‘ Sir , we have been seeking his permission for a long time ; he will not give it . |
| 3 | Their new gas plants will not be on stream for several years ; they need a secure , well-priced coal contract for a long time to come . |
| 4 | It is also our intention — this differs from what has been the case for a long time — that they will be fully manned units . |
| 5 | He had n't had a clothing parcel for a long time . |
| 6 | A wall that has been damp will often contain moisture for a long time after the cause has been remedied , so it is better to allow the walls to dry out naturally , although anti-damp paint could be used to allow the room to be decorated before the wall has dried out . |
| 7 | They must know it 's been going on at domestic and international level for a long time . |
| 8 | May the Town Crier remain in the very capable hands of the college students and lecturers for a long time to come . |
| 9 | We discuss the abortion struggle for a long time . |
| 10 | Been my major struggle for a long time now . |
| 11 | But his parents ' place in Hemlock Road was their base for a long time . |
| 12 | We had a stable rate base for a long time and we saw no reason to doubt that there was anything untoward in the ratings that had been made within our borough . |
| 13 | And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save . |
| 14 | He was tempted to go in and get it over , but he had been away from his temporary headquarters for a long time and he did not even know if the body had bean recovered successfully . |
| 15 | A discrete block of land may have been in existence for a long time before it was first described in a written document . |
| 16 | The first 4 of these have been in existence for a long time . |
| 17 | Masked by the cold war , it has in practice fulfilled that function for a long time . |
| 18 | He had been standing in the kitchen for a long time . |
| 19 | They played rummy with Patsy in the kitchen for a long time because Mother and Father went across the road to Dr and Mrs Johnson 's house . |
| 20 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 21 | She 's got our number all right an' we 'll 'ave to give this place a miss for a long time after this . |
| 22 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
| 23 | He must have saved up his pocket money for a long time in order to buy one of Uncle Philip 's masks . |
| 24 | Then suddenly he sees Piquet go into a spin and does n't get back into the field for a long time . |
| 25 | The snag is , scientists do not yet know whether patients taking the drug for a long time are better off with a little testosterone , or none . |
| 26 | He sat over breakfast in a cafeteria for a long time , reading the Sunday papers . |
| 27 | They 're both pale and passionate these days and she has n't mentioned Napoleon for a long time . |
| 28 | Although out of action for a long time , an internal iron water wheel survives . |
| 29 | The final French losses were seven ships of the line , with about 2500 men killed in action or drowned , and another four vessels , trapped in the Vilaine , unfit for action for a long time . |
| 30 | But after being knocked out in the first round of the English Derby the dog injured a hind muscle and was out of action for a long time . |