Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [be] a long " in BNC.

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1 You want to appeal but there has already been a long delay , and you urgently need to get it right this time .
2 Yet there had also been a long lag before financial markets began to apply many of the points these academics made .
3 It has just been a long battle for us all .
4 It 's just been a long , exhausting day — ’
5 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 .
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