Example sentences of "been long [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all know how the week runs away with official interviews and calls , and how difficult it is to remember all the people with whom you ought to keep in touch , but when I think of the number of things which people of different types , like Lady Londonderry and Lady St Helier and others , have got settled by letting people meet at the dinner table , I despair of a man who never sees even those who have been longest in office on any occasion . |
| 2 | Vision moves to and fro between the vessels , setting up a visual and , if one has been long at sea , an emotional tension between them . |
| 3 | But then , city dwellers have never been long on modesty . |
| 4 | K. M. On one occasion , there was a chap — not been long on the job — ex-Artilleryman . |
| 5 | From his porch , Joseph watched with a sullen and rather bleary eye : the night had been long on reminiscence and several barrels had been tapped to celebrate old victories . |
| 6 | ‘ She 'd not been long in the village . |
| 7 | I had not been long in the restaurant car : ten minutes , the length of a cognac . |
| 8 | They knew from their own and others ' research that there was a diminishing prospect for children returning home once they had been long in care . |
| 9 | After months of pursuing its quarry , it looks like IXI Ltd has finally nailed down the OEM agreement with DEC for its X.desktop manager that has been long in the making . |
| 10 | They watched a woman , who could not have been long in this country , testing a mango for ripeness : she felt it all over with her thumb , not looking at it , concentrated , unsmiling , until the stall holder , ever-vigilant , caught sight of her . |
| 11 | The house , of course , had been long in the building . |
| 12 | Yet he could not have been long in the water . |
| 13 | New enterprises and institutions are not created de novo , out of nothing ; they emerge from a fabric of events which is already complex , which has been long in the weaving , and from which they take their characteristic shape and colour . |
| 14 | Gradually she had come to terms with it , accepted it as a fact of life , though the grief had been longer in going and the sadness was still sometimes there , an echo in the night . |