Example sentences of "[be] [verb] a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WORKERS at almost half the American plants run by General Motors ( GM ) , Ford and Chrysler are getting an unexpectedly long holiday . |
| 2 | The ICC and Zimbabwe are taking a very long gamble . ’ |
| 3 | Two men were taking a suspiciously long time on a roof . |
| 4 | To leap from this standpoint to the assumption that we have an everlasting soul is to leap a very long way — probably too far . |
| 5 | Like all other departments we have been established a very long time and therefore have the experience and the knowledge in dealing with lettings . |
| 6 | In comparison with the inhibition effect , however , this facilitation only occurred when the subject was given a relatively long time to read the context . |