It took a long time for the baby to quieten down.

孩子过了很长时间才停。

This new pain-killer doesn't take long to act on the pain?

这种新痛药不需要很长时间就能发挥痛作用。

Victor and I go back a long way.

我和维克托认识很长时间了。

It took him a long time to dictate this letter.

口述这封信花了他很长时间。

Red hunkers down and joins him.Nothing is said for the longest time.

瑞德盘腿坐到他旁边，两个人很长时间也没有说话。

The lawyer took a long time to interrogate the witness fully.

律师花了很长时间仔细询问目击者。

It took him a long time to get the hang of all the irregular verbs.

他花了很长时间才学了所有不规则动词。

I’m sorry I haven’t written to you for so long.

很抱歉，很长时间未给你写信了。

My father suffered from stomach ulcer for a long time.

我父亲患胃溃疡已经很长时间。

A characteristic of the camel is its ability to live for a long time without water.

骆驼的特点是不喝水也能活很长时间。

The common ancestor of the glasswing is long extinct but the clade it belongs to is known as the clearwing clade.

玻璃翅的共同祖先已灭绝很长时间，但它所属的种类是目前已知的透翅蛾进化枝。

A guy, a friend of mine in Australia told me last time, long time ago.He told me about a station that played very coony music.

我的一个在澳的朋友上一次告诉我，也是很长时间以前了，他提到有一家电台，播放些狡猾的音乐。

At last, the star-A stopped at a position where is very near its initial position. For a long time, both two stars are kept static (moveless).

最终停在它起动的位置附近，就再也不动了，很长时间两颗星星都不动了。

Instead, Ecclestone insists the sport's long-running political stoush is nearing its end -- probably on Wednesday, when all parties are hoping to sign a Concorde Agreement.

然而，伯尼坚持认为这场很长时间的体育界政治骚乱可能就在周三落下帷幕，前提是所有成员都同意签署一项协和协议。

It doesn't take long for freshers to adopt the Oxford way of life — working and playing hard, and feeling equally comfortable in black tie, subfusc (formal academic dress) or fancy dress.

学新生不需要很长时间就能适应牛津的生活方式----努力学习，尽情娱乐，同样舒适的黑色领带，暗色系的（正式学位服）或者奇装异服。