Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [prep] a long " in BNC.

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1 There was one there that was empty and for a long long while .
2 David Boole of Jaguar Cars describes the medium-term as healthier than for a long time' . ’
3 It happened almost overnight and for a long time nobody even heard of him . ’
4 Suss collaborated at Clara Mosch from 1977 to 1982 and for a long time worked with coloured linocuts .
5 With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid .
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