Example sentences of "[been] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been a long time since the women 's game has been so open ; hopefully it will continue . |
| 2 | Since then there has been a long decline . |
| 3 | It had been a long time living in a hole in the ground , let's hope things get better . |
| 4 | The Conservatives have been a long way ahead of Labour not just in seats ( an arbitrary effect of the electoral system ) but also in votes . |
| 5 | It had been a long time since we last saw one of those , so we bought ice cream , sat in the sun and wrote postcards at the Reykjahlid shop . |
| 6 | It has been a long day , but there are still a couple of hours to run , and this is Berlin , where anything can happen . |
| 7 | Everyone is contemplating an early night — it has been a long day , one of the busiest for a while . |
| 8 | It had been a long hot day on the farm where I help my father with his large dairy herd . |
| 9 | It had been a long , slow journey from Odessa and although it was already 1am there were still many more official forms to fill out before their new life in Israel could begin . |
| 10 | Mr Peter Preston , editor of the Guardian , yesterday said : ‘ This has been a long time coming and there are things in it like the enhanced role for proprietors that I 'm not very keen on , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Yet there had also been a long lag before financial markets began to apply many of the points these academics made . |
| 12 | Recently there has been a long ambulance drivers ' strike . |
| 13 | It had been a long ride to an enclosure full of low single-storeyed huts of corrugated iron with cinder paths around , and all set in a large flat field of sparse greying grass . |
| 14 | ‘ Think I 'll shleep here tonight , it 's been a long time , ’ he hiccupped . |
| 15 | It had after all been a long morning . |
| 16 | Seagram , last year 's winner , has been a long way behind that excellence this season , as has Bonanza Boy , the 1991 favourite , whose desertion by Peter Scudamore was clearly influenced by the drying conditions . |
| 17 | Whitaker also had Gammon entered in the World Cup final but , as his wife Claire said yesterday : ‘ It would have been a long way to go with just one horse . |
| 18 | But this would have been a long and painful process . |
| 19 | Appointed a Privy Counsellor two years ago , his promotion seems to have been a long time coming , prompting some commentators to dub him ‘ The Nearly Man ’ . |
| 20 | By now , the negotiations had been a long and tedious process . |
| 21 | There has been a long debate as to whether Severn Mill was operated as a tide mill , the general opinion now seeming to favour this idea . |
| 22 | There has been a long tradition of professional marketing activities by a wide spectrum of non-profit making organisations including political parties , the Health Education Council with its anti-smoking campaign , the Right to Read programme , Oxfam , Christian Aid and the Salvation Army . |
| 23 | I thought I would go home when I left but it has been a long time . |
| 24 | In a way , the revolution had been a long time coming and somewhat contained in America , despite the reactions of the mass media which had been — like all conservative America — horrified , if not titillated by the lurid images of beat youth . |
| 25 | Although there had been a long established tradition of community and private forestry schemes , it was not until the launching of the Saemol Undong ( or New Community Movement ) in 1970 that it was possible to conceive of a nation-wide forestry policy and programme . |
| 26 | There has been a long , ongoing battle between alternative medical practice and orthodox medicine — with the establishment maintaining the upper hand . |
| 27 | It had been a long walk so far , and it was n't over . |
| 28 | It has been a long time . |
| 29 | Well that 's no surprise ; but it 's been a long time in coming . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's been a long day . ’ |