Example sentences of "for a long time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that with another ten years of John Paul 's rule , the silencing of awkward bishops and theologians , the appointment to the episcopate of a most carefully selected team of neo-conservatives , a rather traditionalist form of Catholicism will , in fact , harden and remain for a long time effectively unchangeable . |
| 2 | Watching the Trooper disappear up the road , I reckon it could go on trooping for a long time yet at the right price , with very little needing doing . |
| 3 | I think this is a good principle and we hope to continue it , to some degree for a long time yet . ’ |
| 4 | He would n't want to flee the nest for a long time yet . |
| 5 | ‘ I daresay this knavish lot will be in power for a long time yet . |
| 6 | She 'll be around for a long time yet . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Well , it wo n't be dark for a long time yet . |
| 8 | May he escape the bears for a long time yet . |
| 9 | Certainly schools will not be handling such retrieval techniques in the present economic circumstances for a long time yet ; though a service to teachers and educational researchers is offered in the United States ( and is available here in some libraries ) by the ERIC system , which provides micro-copies of research papers together with a tolerably thorough indexing system which can be computerized for quick search . |
| 10 | Okay you wo n't need to know that for a long time yet anyway will you . |
| 11 | ‘ You see , we had n't intended to get married for a long time yet — there being so many drawbacks , ’ she began . |
| 12 | Luke , she knew , would be occupied for a long time yet , drinking coffee with the other women , talking over the day , helping to cement working relationships for the future . |
| 13 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 14 | We are now in a second slump , which will continue for a long time yet , and unemployment is rising . |
| 15 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 16 | Schemes of the same kind were drawn up for the forests of Chute , Pickering and Knaresborough , and in the soke of Somersham within the forest of Huntingdon , which the Attorney-General reported ‘ had not been in use for a long time past . |
| 17 | In the modern age , institutions outside the family have been created to administer public affairs and women were for a long time expressly excluded . |
| 18 | It seems as certain as anything can be that the absolute numbers of the old , and for a long time also their number relative to the whole population , will be far higher in future than anything experienced in the past . |
| 19 | She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable . |
| 20 | ‘ Bill and I talked about the amniocentesis for a long time tonight , and we 've decided against it . ’ |
| 21 | In a cold fury he stood and sat about for a long time within , twice changing from chair to chair . |
| 22 | They were both quiet for a long time both thinking much the same thing : was such a pretence a way of beginning or would it destroy the might have-been ? |
| 23 | Plants like pansies will flower for longer , but even those that flower for a long time anyway , like African and French marigolds , will look neater and tidier if dead-headed , and the dead flowers will not detract from flowers that are still blooming . |
| 24 | Alice went to a cafe in Finchley Road , and sat for a long time quietly by herself over strong coffee . |
| 25 | and manager Smith plans to be at the Manor for a long time too … he 's brushed away speculation about going to Stoke … he 's happy at Oxford … well he will be when they start winning |
| 26 | Equality of opportunity — the idea that everybody should have a fair chance of doing themselves justice — is a notion that has been at the basis of public provision of education and indeed of much educational charity for a long time indeed . |
| 27 | For indeed the demand and supply schedules do not in practice remain unchanged for a long time together , but are constantly being changed ; and every change in them alters the equilibrium amount and the equilibrium price , and thus gives new positions to the centres about which the amount and the price tend to oscillate . [ … ] |
| 28 | Examinations with a scanning electron microscope show that cowpeas that have been stored for a long time readily lose protein when soaked , whereas samples stored without soaking do not lose protein . |
| 29 | We seem to have two kinds of ‘ existenceworthiness ’ : the dewdrop kind , which can be summed up as ‘ likely to come into existence but not very durable ’ ; and the rock kind , which can be summed up as ‘ not very likely to come into existence but likely to last for a long time once there ’ . |
| 30 | If you have not kept up with the nursing journals or have been out of practice for a long time then you will have to trust to luck or the recommendations of others as to the relevance and value of any course you choose to attend . |