Example sentences of "around for a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 2 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 3 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 4 | It will be around for a long time . |
| 5 | She 'll be around for a long time yet . ’ |
| 6 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 7 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 8 | For our purposes what matters is that RNA , or something like it , was around for a long time before it became self-replicating . |
| 9 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 10 | REGARDLESS of how much longer Norman Lamont survives at No 11 , his Budget will be around for a long time . |
| 11 | Of Records , Laurie Bruce writes : ‘ Many people are giving up records for cassettes or compact discs – a great mistake as records will be around for a long time to come . |
| 12 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 13 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 14 | Is this a new disease , something we 've discovered recently , or has it been around for a long time ? |