for quite long time?? vs for a quite long time??

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• How can we justify using this to the taxpayer for the administrative purposes which are known and have been foreseen for quite a long time?
• Circulation to her tail was cut off for quite a long time.
• And he paused... for quite a long time.
• He's been a cheerleader for quite a long time.
• My father has been a poacher for quite a long time.
• This directive fixes the level of excise for quite a long time.
• You've been unconscious for quite a long time.
• You were with Dr. Morgan for quite a long time.
• Madam President, this issue has been discussed for quite a long time.
• Tom managed a small bar near Boston for quite a long time.
• Isn't it strange how you can know someone for quite a long time and never quite...
• Then I suppose it will go on for quite a long time.
• Then I suppose it will go on for quite a long time.
• My father's been sick for quite a long time now.
• The Solar System's been around for quite a long time, but the galaxy much longer.
• Okay, this should hold the both of us over for quite a long time.
• I didn't even know, for quite a long time, what real pleasure means.
• And because we've been predicting the end of Moore's Law for quite a long time - the first prediction said 2002, until now it says 2022.
• So we've been eating, drinking, thinking, living public space for quite a long time.
• So you'd be gone for quite a long time.

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• We require them for a quite different purpose.
• Mr President, I want to begin by thanking the rapporteur for a quite excellent report.
• Mr President, I too should like to thank Mrs Smet for a quite outstanding report.
• Mr President, even before this vote I indicated my wish to speak for a quite simple reason.
• It is for a quite simple reason, and that is the experience I have had with the mismanagement of holdings in the former GDR.
• Yet today, we are looking for a quite different European Commission, one that takes this dossier to heart and plays the political role it should be playing.
• Madam President, I should like to begin by thanking Mrs Gomes for a quite excellent report.
• I would ask, for a quite specific reason, to take the floor under the rules of procedure.
• Madam President, I want to say a big word of thanks to the rapporteur, Lydie Polfer, for a quite excellent report.
• Tension has been growing for a quite some time along the line of contact between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
• How can we justify using this to the taxpayer for the administrative purposes which are known and have been foreseen for quite a long time?
• Mr President, I am sorry to bring a little spot of bitterness into the current enthusiasm over the question of our relations with Chile, for a quite simple reason.
• I was in the last position for a quite a while, so I was a little worried.
• I was in the last position for a quite a while, so I was a little worried.
• But I do not think that we should do that. I believe for a quite different reason that we should not do that.
• Mr President, I want to begin by thanking not only the rapporteur, Mrs Bachelot-Narquin, for a quite excellent piece of work but also the shadow rapporteurs, including Mrs Schroedter, who became involved.
• The risk is established, the symbol is disastrous, and all for a quite laughable market!
• After I graduated, my income was also above the threshold, but I was able to keep on my rented accommodation for a quite a few years before deciding once and for all to buy and to go and live somewhere else.
• Were you friends a long time?
• Has she had it for a long time? -A while.