Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I been here a long time . |
| 2 | The minutes of the last meeting , the twentieth , the nineteenth of October , which is quite a long time ago , did anyone have any particular comments ? |
| 3 | Which is quite a long time . |
| 4 | What we 've done , is we 've set up an answer phone to pick up these calls after 13 seconds , after 13 rings sorry , about 30 seconds , which is quite a long time . |
| 5 | When I first began designing for double jacquard , which was quite a long time ago , there was little or no information available and not many knitters used the technique , so over the years I learnt the hard way by trial and error . |
| 6 | ‘ You were away a long time , ’ said Pip . |
| 7 | She was away a long time . |
| 8 | Such connections are occasionally recognised in orthodox medicine where there is not a long time delay between one complaint developing and the next , though the significance of the link between diseases is frequently missed . |
| 9 | It 's rather a long time is n't it ? |
| 10 | If you plant a crop , it 's quite a long time before it |
| 11 | ‘ It 's quite a long time since I made any . |
| 12 | That it 's quite a long time to achieve . |
| 13 | It 's quite a long time since breakfast . ’ |
| 14 | As the PAL:YPE recalls , this impression was based on a combination of physical environment , staff vision , and an existing commitment to an infrastructure including a permanent part-time library assistant : School A I was impressed with , because they too had already started to talk about resource-based learning and they already had as far as I remember … ( now my memory is fairly vague now because it is quite a long time ago ) … but as far as I remember they had a Headmaster , who was extremely interested , very keen indeed , and they had a committee already set up , I think to look into this . |
| 15 | But she was aware that she had been preoccupied a lot of the time , all too aware of the mountain of work before her , and that it was rather a long time since she and her daughter had had any special outings together . |
| 16 | It was quite a long time . |
| 17 | Oh I thought he was dead a long time ago . |