Example sentences of "will be [art] long [noun sg] before " in BNC.

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1 But it will be a long time before that system is fully installed .
2 Since it will be a long time before the reflective process turns into action plans , we shall have to make do with what we already know and for the purposes of this chapter we can relate it to Level Three Partnership .
3 American manufacturers share this scepticism , ‘ It will be a long time before there 's any international graphics standard , ’ says Dave Robertson , head of the US company Computervision 's British operation .
4 But we are assured it will be a long time before we see bingo or boobs in the sober pages of BRE News .
5 ‘ It will be a long time before I see you again , Willie , ’ she said .
6 The green shoots of recovery may now be twitching but it will be a long time before the unemployment figures level off .
7 ‘ It will be a long time before Patrick walks unaided but I know he will swing along with his sticks and be independent .
8 The lieutenant believed ‘ it will be a long time before he can expect to be advanced to be captain in so old a corps .
9 The discipline of information science , which attempts to study all the ways in which human beings communicate information with each other and the many facilities which make it easier to perform , is in its earliest formative years , and it will be a long time before we can be sure either that the science of information is a true discipline or that it can deliver its present optimistic promises .
10 The fact remains that it will be a long time before the legal profession properly shakes off the constraints of client expectation that force it to underplay its modern role .
11 ‘ It will be a long time before I can look at you and not want you .
12 They will be voted out and it will be a long time before we have a Conservative Government in Britain again .
13 ‘ I had three chances and it will be a long time before I forget today .
14 It was so effective , it will be a long time before any of the Sicilians dare to attack us again , if ever ! ’
15 ‘ And I think it will be a long time before you grow old , Shelley . ’
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