Example sentences of "[been] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the victim been old Fagg himself , the suspect list would have been much longer and more colourful , in every sense of the word . |
| 2 | While the delay to the start of the flying programme has been much longer than anyone would wish , much more progress has been made in the ground and rig testing than at the comparable stage of any previous project I have been associated with and we are very satisfied indeed with the results that have been obtained so far . |
| 3 | I am sorry I have been so long in replying but I only got your letter two days ago . |
| 4 | It 's been so long . ’ |
| 5 | The recession might not have been so long nor so deep had she listened . |
| 6 | She had been so long without a woman friend . |
| 7 | ‘ It has been so long , and this must be Perdita . ’ |
| 8 | It 's been so long . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's been so long I 've forgotten what 's it like , but this game gives me the chance to change that . |
| 10 | It had been so long for her she was like a dam waiting to burst . |
| 11 | Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment . |
| 12 | It 's been so long . |
| 13 | " Why have you been so long ? |
| 14 | For ever , after all , had not been so long . |
| 15 | Had it really been so long ? |
| 16 | ‘ Claudia , oh , Gemini girl , it 's been so long . |
| 17 | It 's been so long now that I see the title as my right . ’ |
| 18 | treaty was actually signed and the process has been so long and er various people have been er As it were , knocked with the Danish referendum , the french referendum , and John Major 's had his own difficulties in getting through the house of commons . |
| 19 | But it 's been so long . |
| 20 | No but it I mean it 's just been so long , it I I said to him , can I do this trial and he said , and i explained everything about it and he said , yes try it . |
| 21 | It 's been so long , Ruth . ’ |
| 22 | Sydney Samuelson , the British Film Commissioner , whose father opened a cinema in Southport in 1910 , said his association with the industry had been so long that he remembered receiving a letter signed Wil Napoleon asking how to become an extra . |
| 23 | I recently had a liver transplant at Addenbrooke 's Hospital and still feel guilty that inevitably the decision was made to give me a liver rather than someone else whose life expectancy may have been marginally longer . |
| 24 | She had been as long as 33–1 in the offices in the morning , opened 16–1 on course , before being sent off at 8–1 , and ironically it had been an eye-catching workout with the Luca Cumani-trained Red Slippers last week that convinced Bell that he had a worthy contender . |
| 25 | Six 229 Squadron aircraft also reached Malta from ‘ Furious ’ , but the remaining aircraft of this unit stayed aboard as the carriers had by then been as long in hostile water as was safe to allow . |
| 26 | We do not know how long he stayed in Paris — it could have been as long as a decade . |
| 27 | She had n't been as long in this job as her last one , yet she knew there was a positive danger that she might soon be scouring the situations vacant columns again . |
| 28 | No I , I must of been how long 's he been married ? |
| 29 | In fact , there is only one car that has been around long enough to have reached an affordable price on the secondhand market — the Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.8i . |
| 30 | Well , yes , I suppose , in a ‘ how long is a piece of string ’ sense that enough piranhas — and I do n't suppose anyone 's ever been around long enough to count — could together commit such acts of savagery . |