Example sentences of "[pron] be [art] long time [adv] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Which was a long time ago .
2	So when we say we want the laws of physics perhaps to stay constant in time , when we observe these objects a long way away we 're observing the laws of physics as they were a long time ago .
3	It 's a long time ago , though .
4	" It 's a long time ago , Mr Feather . "
5	And it 's a long time ago — ’
6	I know it 's a long time ago
7	Yeah it 's nineteen fifty when I left , you know , it 's a long time ago !
8	It 's a long time ago but you know the trial 's only just finished .
9	It 's a long time ago since I did any chemistry .
10	‘ It 's a long time away , ’ he said doubtfully .
11	Well it 's alright it 's not that long I suppose it 's a long time when you 're six .
12	It is a long time ago .
13	It is a long time ago and what matters now is the future .
14	It is a long time ago but still worth a story in some paper if Ana 's problem can be tagged on to it . ’
15	It was a long time ago .
16	It was a long time ago and he was very small , he said , he could barely recall it .
17	‘ It was a long time ago … ’
18	‘ It was a long time ago , James , a long time ago .
19	It was a long time ago . ’
20	This savage day , and he thought , inexplicably , for it was a long time ago — he had thought to have forgotten it — of a boy who was swallowed in a sewer .
21	And Edna , banging her iron down on the cloth on the kitchen table , had replied , ‘ It was a long time ago , Miss Celia .
22	It was a long time ago and the memory plays tricks but Derek thinks the following account is fairly accurate .
23	It was a long time ago now .
24	‘ It was a long time ago , ’ Preston said .
25	‘ It was a long time ago , ’ he says .
26	I think it can do , I mean it was a long time ago and I 'm , I 'm
27	It was a long time ago .
28	Oh well , it was a long time ago . ’
29	‘ It was a long time ago .
30	It was a long time ago .

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