Example sentences of "was a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're sweet , ’ said Lucy , stroking her face , holding her hand , ‘ but it was a long long time ago . |
| 2 | It was a long time since she had last seen Michael : it was seven months , two weeks and three days , four if she counted today . |
| 3 | It was a long time ago . |
| 4 | The end of year deadline for eradication of asbestos-contaminated rolling stock , agreed many years ago between BR and the unions , was quietly and mutually forgotten when it was realised it was a long way from being achieved unless services were decimated . |
| 5 | It was a long tale of low-cost facelifts , make do and mend , and cover up the cracks in a coat of Network SouthEast red , white and blue paint . |
| 6 | But the reason we , unlike the Americans , have no telephones on planes is largely because a consensus on frequencies was a long time coming . |
| 7 | The principle indicated in those cases was a long way from the circumstances of the present case and was far from warranting the conclusion that by making a photocopy of a document which in the hands of the maker of the photocopy was not privileged , and then sending the photocopy to a solicitor for the purposes of obtaining advice , privilege was thereby cast on the copy sent to the soicitor . |
| 8 | There was a long pause and then a smile : ‘ I assume I did . ’ |
| 9 | Suddenly there was a long burst of machine gun fire . |
| 10 | It was a long and anxious debate about Ramsey without him knowing ; between the Archbishop of Canterbury , the prime minister Eden , the prime minister 's patronage secretary Bevir , Garbett the outgoing Archbishop of York , and Wand the outgoing Bishop of London . |
| 11 | Meanwhile — and it was a long meanwhile — the British were delighted with themselves and with their statecraft . |
| 12 | ‘ Mmm , ’ he remarks , ‘ that was a long corridor . ’ |
| 13 | It was a long book which attempted to define Marx 's and Engels 's position vis-à-vis a whole range of contemporary socialist philosophers . |
| 14 | Even though one was a long way from primitive promiscuity , binding individual marriage had not yet appeared . |
| 15 | Ben Nevis was a long drag ; Snowdon is less than half the height and there you cheat by starting at 300 metres . |
| 16 | It was a long trip , not helped by a tyre that cried ‘ enough ! ’ in the middle of nowhere and required changing — a job made more difficult by the fact that Odd-Knut had no spare — but ultimately we arrived at the entrance to Rostadalen . |
| 17 | We called the police and ambulance but it was a long time before the police arrived . |
| 18 | One day when he was old this would be a nutcracker face but that was a long way off . |
| 19 | It was a long business . |
| 20 | There was a long moment 's silence . |
| 21 | Charles and Diana are both very fond of the Antipodes — Charles feels particularly at home there after his months at Timbertop — but it was a long and exhausting tour . |
| 22 | And Peter Brook 's powerful adaptation of William Golding 's Lord of the Flies was a long time on the shelf before securing a release in 1963 . |
| 23 | There was a long gap . |
| 24 | There was a long pause , the kind of pause that winners always display as they create a little time to savour their victory . |
| 25 | ‘ There was a long pause and Dr Runcie said : ‘ Well , I always suspected it was he who had written it , but I never thought there was anything personal in it . |
| 26 | And first , there was a long interruption to normal service at Prime Minister 's Question Time when two Tory backbenchers threw themselves in front of the House and got mown down by the Opposition roaring with ridicule . |
| 27 | Britain was a long time recovering after 1945 . |
| 28 | Singapore , however , had one military drawback : it was a long way from the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf . |
| 29 | There was a long pause . |
| 30 | Thirty years was a long time to stay with one company . |