Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [noun sg] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will mainly be because they have been in office a long time , and because of the recession . |
| 2 | We have been in business a long time and not being selected by one particular country is not going to have a significant effect on us at all . ’ |
| 3 | They go with the will of the people and the will of the people is to go along with the President , I 've been in politics a long time . |
| 4 | Philip hoped Uncle Walter would n't be in hospital a long time . |
| 5 | She knew he would be in hospital a long time and wondered how they would manage if he ever came home . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been at sea a long time . |
| 7 | Waterford as highly encouraging — exploration between Kilmeaden and Kilmacthomas found primary gold traces of nearly two ounces per tonne — though this is of course a long way from a commercial proposition . |
| 8 | There is in English a long tradition of Horatian poetics . |
| 9 | It is fortunate for the further success of the breed that the liaison between these two animals did not produce fruit , except on one occasion , since the bitch was in fact a long coat , and thus unable to be registered with the ADRK . |
| 10 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |