Example sentences of "[vb -s] a long [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might have added : But he has a long memory for those that let him down . |
| 2 | Colin French has a long record for animal cruelty , and there were cheers in the public gallery as he was taken away . |
| 3 | ‘ I think it takes a long while for The Wedding Present to build up trust in someone . |
| 4 | Well , the best thing about the course is , I think , that you get an all-round view of how it 's arranged and the time aspect of the information flow — that it takes a long time for information to reach the books and compendia etc . |
| 5 | It takes a long time for an explosion in the southern hemisphere to affect the north ; an eruption in the northern hemisphere has a much quicker impact on us . |
| 6 | I 'm Emma with her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage , and love is something that comes in different clothes , with a different way and different face , and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it , to be able to call it love . |
| 7 | In a big house it often takes a long time for everyone to find ‘ Smee ’ . |
| 8 | This is because its chronicity can be achieved only by delivering a massive insult or repeated dosing so that it takes a long time for the acute ulcer to heal and often leads to the death of the animal in the acute phase . |
| 9 | But it 's like pouring kettles of hot water into a cold bath it takes a long time for them to make an impression . ’ |
| 10 | It seems to me that you get these big moments in the life of the church , as you do in the life of any institution , historically speaking , and it takes a long time for you to discover what the effect of them is going to be . |
| 11 | You said that it takes a long time for development between the first idea being mooted and a workable application of the particular physical principle , and you cited , what , fifty years for the development of a nuclear power station — is there always that time lag in technology ? |