Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However , this does not persist over a long time scale and is often not to be observed at all . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Rattling in the chest ; every cold goes to the chest or nose and the catarrh hangs on a long time . |
| 6 | well that 's going back a long time , is n't it ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think . |
| 9 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |