Example sentences of "[not/n't] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a long way from Kirsty . |
| 2 | Such connections are occasionally recognised in orthodox medicine where there is not a long time delay between one complaint developing and the next , though the significance of the link between diseases is frequently missed . |
| 3 | Gradually , countries are coming to their senses and realising that non-stop exploitation of rainforest resources is not a long term answer to poverty . |
| 4 | It 's not a long course , but it will examine every aspect of technique with every club in the bag . |
| 5 | It was not a long journey and as the sun was shining it was a very pleasant one . |
| 6 | Two weeks is not a long time especially as social workers have many competing claims on their time . |
| 7 | The journey is not a long one , a few centimetres only , and the babies quickly find a teat . |
| 8 | It was not a long letter , written in an old-fashioned copperplate hand . |
| 9 | You see , because everybody everybody from Mexico , right down to the er to the tip of South America , for example , er speak one dialect or another of er of er of of of of Spain , of the Spanish language , and large areas of er of er the Indes you see , er and Italian is not a long way from it , you see , so er er er it it on the surface it may seem to have have been difficult , but the er you know there we we we did get by . |
| 10 | One explanation might be that five years is still not a long enough lead time . |
| 11 | It 's not a long story . |
| 12 | It was not a long telephone call . |
| 13 | Three weeks is not a long time to debate a Bill , but the number of hours that we can devote to the Bill during that period will be perfectly adequate . |
| 14 | The fight was not a long or bloody one . |
| 15 | Andrus just pops in to see Sesostris and they have a bit of a chat , not a long one , they do n't even have a cup of coffee , mean bastards , both of them , and then Andrus goes on to the Cashier presumably with Sesostris 's authorization and the Cashier takes the money out of the safe and gives it to him . |
| 16 | That 's not a long hop , that 's a googly . |
| 17 | It is not a long — term strategy upon which Europe can depend . |
| 18 | Your son has suffered a terrible loss — six months is not a long period of time to get over such a trauma . |
| 19 | It 's not a , it 's not a long journey either from Queensbury to Morecambe is it ? |
| 20 | Sheringham is n't a long course , but it will certainly test your technique . |
| 21 | It was n't a long road . |
| 22 | It was n't a long courtship . |
| 23 | It was n't a long vigil . |
| 24 | It was n't a long wait . |
| 25 | Cathy had been assigned a tutor , she used to take her daughter along to a little school ( not her previous school ) and have lessons there in the staffroom : I never liked school before but I liked this as it was only half-past nine till half-past twelve so it was n't a long day and I could take Rebecca with me . |
| 26 | I do n't brood on this too long because this is n't a long tube journey . |
| 27 | But on the trail Sheila rides there is n't a long horn or rattler in sight . |