Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again , the alteration which he and Ferguson made together was a long way from a major structural change . |
| 2 | ‘ It has just been a long battle for us all . |
| 3 | You want to appeal but there has already been a long delay , and you urgently need to get it right this time . |
| 4 | He was philosophical , not to say laid back about the inconvenience of being called out unnecessarily at the end of what had already been a long day . |
| 5 | Yet there had also been a long lag before financial markets began to apply many of the points these academics made . |