Example sentences of "a very long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a very long journey right across the Atlas mountains and down to the edge of the desert . |
| 2 | Eighty years does n't seem a very long time when you consider the art of acting has been prospering in Europe over the last four hundred or so years , quite apart from the great traditions of ancient Greek drama . |
| 3 | The 'phone rang for a very long time and when Mrs Pettifer eventually answered she sounded quite put out . |
| 4 | This may be reasonably safe with a very long tow rope , but if there is only a shorter length of rope available the glider may overrun and smash into the back of the car , causing hundreds of pounds ' worth of damage to the glider . |
| 5 | The drink theme too , broadly understood , goes back a very long way . |
| 6 | This sequence could not occur in The Possessed — a dangerous thing to say about a very long and diverse book , but true . |
| 7 | The result can be a very long document in a complicated coding scheme , but it forms a powerful description of design information without any compromise made in accuracy . |
| 8 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |
| 9 | Kelly , who has won this race three times , said : ‘ It has been a very long and hard season for me , and I feel very tired . |
| 10 | ‘ As far as the grassroots are concerned we have got one , and I hope we have her for a very long time . ’ |
| 11 | It seemed like a very long time ago when I and others followed Lovat into this house . |
| 12 | If you rehearse in different rooms , setting up the equipment randomly , then it will take you a very long time to achieve this ( the chances are you never will ) . |
| 13 | Most of us have been with our artists a very long time . |
| 14 | It has been a shareholder for a very long time in some private companies and I think we 've become known to be a supportive shareholder . |
| 15 | As always , it was a very long day to get through . |
| 16 | On the other hand all modern anthropologists and archaeologists would agree with the view that for a very long period of history mankind has existed solely by hunting , fishing , and gathering , and that such a technological stage always precedes domestication of plants and animals . |
| 17 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 18 | This is easy enough , but measuring along the coastline requires a very long ruler indeed . |
| 19 | It takes a long time to warm up , a very long time , but then I sleep as though practising for death . |
| 20 | The subordinate status of professionals lasted a very long time indeed . |
| 21 | It was common for the storage building to be accompanied by a pair of kilns and a complete range of such structures might be erected adjacent to a very long storage building on a site where the cultivation of hops was undertaken intensively ( eg , at the hop farm of a brewery . ) |
| 22 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 23 | ‘ It took a very long time to reconcile myself with my father . ’ |
| 24 | It is important to have been about for a very long time . |
| 25 | For her part , Mrs Thatcher emphasised that the references to future German unity in the declaration was ‘ a very carefully drafted section and we spent a very long time on it ’ . |
| 26 | Owen O'Neil agrees : ‘ There 's no major comedy circuit in Northern Ireland in the way there is in London , but people have survived for a very long time on the strength of their own sense of humour . ’ |
| 27 | It is the end of a very long era . |
| 28 | Like all other departments we have been established a very long time and therefore have the experience and the knowledge in dealing with lettings . |
| 29 | It 's definitely a possession of other people , I have a very long list of things I want to do . ’ |
| 30 | SOUL was once — a very long time ago — the sound of a psyche breaking up , shattered by desire or loss — a wracked catharsis , an ailing , dejected , broken sound , essentially tragic . |