Example sentences of "[be] [noun] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She had been part of a long stream of women who had come and gone swiftly , lives collapsing in one area as they gained power and certainty in another .
2 We 've been pals for a long time .
3 This is particularly true of regulations in heavily regulated fields such as agriculture , where they may be part of a long string of related measures or be limited to implementing a regulation of broader scope .
4 And even her clothes , once you had got over the original shock , were part of a long tradition of home-made outfits dating back to her days at the Mother Theresa Convent , South Wimbledon .
5 ‘ People thought we were idiots for a long time , ’ remembers Kelly .
6 We are , we are debt free , we 've been debt for a long time .
7 Such thinking is part of a long tradition , finding its most clear formulation in the political philosophy of Hobbes where human society is presented as being in a state of ‘ warre ’ in which every man fights every other man for control of resources and for the ( presumed ) pleasure of dominance .
8 As to who would provide the care she said that where there is care over a long period of time , families often stop employing carers through an agency .
9 Two thousand miles to the east of St Petersburg , the boxcar was part of a long train that had started out in St Petersburg a week earlier and had gone along the Trans-Siberian Railway .
10 Drugs were also seized and police say it was part of a long term campaign , codenamed Operation Lucy and targeted on a guns and drug network .
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