1 It seemed to me that we continued thus for a long time.
2 I too sat down before the fire and gazed at the coals, and nothing was said for a long time.
3 "It's a bad job," said Wemmick, scratching his head, "and I assure you I haven't been so cut up for a long time."
4 It was then I began to understand that everything in the room had stopped, like the watch and the clock, a long time ago.
5 I think it must have been a full year after our hunt upon the marshes, for it was a long time after, and it was winter and a hard frost.
6 Whenever I fell asleep, I awoke with the notion I had had in the sluice-house, that a long time had elapsed and the opportunity to save him was gone.
7 It was likewise to be noted of this majestic spirit, that whereas it always appeared with an air of having been out a long time and walked an immense distance, it perceptibly came from a closely contiguous wall.
8 Then, he conducted me to a bower about a dozen yards off, but which was approached by such ingenious twists of path that it took quite a long time to get at; and in this retreat our glasses were already set forth.
9 Scattered wits take a long time picking up; and often before I had got them well together, they would be dispersed in all directions by one stray thought, that perhaps after all Miss Havisham was going to make my fortune when my time was out.
10 No one but themselves and Mrs. Coiler the toady neighbor showed any interest in this part of the conversation, and it appeared to me that it was painful to Herbert; but it promised to last a long time, when the page came in with the announcement of a domestic affliction.