Example sentences of "long time [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption .
2 For a long time that night too he had not slept , had lain thinking , wondering what to do , listening to the delicate sounds like tiny bubbles breaking — and then hearing them no more .
3 I was awake a long time that night .
4 She lay awake for a long time that night , going over the conversation with her mother , trying to work out what she should say to Leo , and she rehearsed so many and varied conversations that she thought she 'd go mad .
5 It had been known for a long time that histamine was responsible for producing many allergies and the first antihistamine drug was produced in France in 1937 .
6 Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan .
7 We have also known for a long time that morphine cures diarrhoea .
8 dis I mean , it 's a bloody long time that train in n it ?
9 And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me .
10 Rigid solids are much harder to get hold of in tension and so for a long time such testing as was done was confined to compression and bending .
11 Well I 'm conscious we kept you a long time this time this morning and I certainly do appreciate your attendance and presence .
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