Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adj] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 'd been ill a long time . |
| 2 | I must have been unconscious a long time . |
| 3 | The Swiss crew was stroked by Jeremy West , the French crew included East German veteran Rudi Helm , the USSR/Italian team included masters Schaparenko and Tichenko and there was a USSR/Israeli crew , something which would have been unthinkable a short time before . |
| 4 | Or perhaps it had been clear a long time before that . |
| 5 | Jackets that had been second-hand a long time ago , trousers the same . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've been asleep a long time . ’ |
| 7 | That is , in addition to the tendency to feel tired because we have been awake a long time , there is some rhythmic change that decreases our fatigue at some times and increases it at others . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been patient a long time , nonya . ’ |