Example sentences of "[adv] have long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
| 2 | Well aright I 'm k I 've just had long had long memories of the . |
| 3 | A packed City Hall did not have long to wait as Lewis roared in with several more stinging rights and left hooks and when Garber was floored for the second time he had no chance of beating the count . |
| 4 | They did not have long to wait . |
| 5 | EXPATRIATES in Hong Kong , homesick for real fish and chips do not have long to wait . |
| 6 | She did not have long to wait . |
| 7 | She did not have long to wait . |
| 8 | A factor to be considered was that the leases were short term and therefore often did not have long to run by the year end ; this reduced the difference between a valuation with vacant possession and one with a tenant in occupation . |
| 9 | Sadly , he did not have long to bask in the glory of that epic flight , he was killed while delivering a Vickers Viking in France . |
| 10 | It appears that we may not have long to go . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , however , he would not have long to play before he was turned to spaghetti . ’ |
| 12 | In the south , it was to be a different story and with Vietminh claims recognized neither by the British/Indian forces who arrived first nor by the French who followed not long after , and with Japanese forces for the most part under much tighter control , the reassertion of French sovereignty , at least in so far as this might be done through the possession of Saigon , did not have long to wait . |
| 13 | We did not have long to wait . |
| 14 | She says at her age , she might not have long to enjoy it . |
| 15 | He did not have long to wait for his answer . |
| 16 | She did not have long to brood because Harbury began talking to her about the MacQuillan case . |
| 17 | To our pleasant surprise we did not have long to wait before hearing that my application for transfer to Felixstowe had been successful . |
| 18 | ( Unfortunately , however , he would not have long to play before he was turned to spaghetti . |
| 19 | He will not have long to wait for another diet of his own words . |
| 20 | If something like that did not happen soon , Robert thought , she might well not have long to live . |
| 21 | He did not have long to wait , though it seemed an age to him . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the basic directions of economic reform are rather similar to Hungary , though the initial position is quite different , in that Yugoslavia already had long experience of worker-managed firms as well as a high degree of monetary mismanagement ( including a spell of hyperinflation ) resulting from inability of the country 's federal structure to impose monetary discipline . |
| 23 | Do you do you remember ever ever having long periods of illness yourself ? |
| 24 | Before the show some of us crowded into the tiny lighting box as Pyke , in his denim dungarees and white T-shirt — he still had long hair — took his seat . |
| 25 | Because he always had long trousers that went over his boots , and they were you know , very wide so the boys would call him too long and too loose . |
| 26 | Howard also has long experience of developing and presenting courses and training programmes to computer professionals , managers and users . |
| 27 | This seven-headed , four-legged monster also has long tails or rays attached to its back ( fig. 14.28 ) . |
| 28 | Her long face , with thick eyebrows , is that of a pleasant and ever-so-slightly bored horse , but she also has long legs , and no bottom to speak of , and wears her hair long , straight and black to her shoulders . |
| 29 | The first probably had long snouts and are thought to have been the ancestors of the lemurs , now only found in Madagascar , and of the lorises that today live in the forests of the Far East . |
| 30 | It was early in the season yet , and he probably had long periods of inactivity to fill up between visitors ; but he was not going to be left at leisure for long this time , for in the gravelled car park outside the enclosure a large bus was just disgorging a load of loud and active schoolboys , shepherded by a frantic youth hardly older than the eldest of his charges . |