Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [prep] [noun] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 've been at sea a long time .
2 They go with the will of the people and the will of the people is to go along with the President , I 've been in politics a long time .
3 Then he said quickly , for the first time sounding awkward , " You have been with Jasper a long time , have n't you ? "
4 ‘ You ca n't sack a man because of his friends , ’ he said forthrightly , ‘ and Caretaker 's family have been in Medewich a long time .
5 It will mainly be because they have been in office a long time , and because of the recession .
6 We have been in business a long time and not being selected by one particular country is not going to have a significant effect on us at all . ’
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