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For a very long time three different streams of literature ran their course: black, Afrikaans, and English.
It took a surprisingly long time — three years — because Roche was cautious, starting with a tiny dose and gradually escalating it.
Brink, however, remained in South Africa and wrote, in Writing in a State of Siege (1983), about how unsuccessful the National Party had been in silencing South African writers: For a very long time three different streams of literature ran their course: black, Afrikaans, and English.
Nina Stibbe's Man at the Helm is the funniest book I have read for a long time – three young children (and their dog) try to find a new husband for their 31-year-old divorced mother in an unfriendly English village in the 1970s.
My projects take a long time, three or four years.
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We have been together a long time – six years.
That's a long, long time – eight games and a half.
I stayed like that for a long time, fifteen, maybe twenty minutes.
It has been a fairly long time, six years, since you last released a studio recording.
But it was a phenomenon, and it lasted a long time, five years or so".
It's been a long time, four years, but I'm enjoying it.
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