Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] a [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is something I should 'ave done a very long time ago . |
| 2 | You 'll have to go a very long way to find a series of more disparaging , gloom laden , negative reports , and this , in a season when Linfield 's performances actually won them the league ! |
| 3 | You mean I 'll have to wait a very long time . |
| 4 | What I 'm saying here is that , if you fancy one , it should be checked out carefully in the shop before parting with the ready folding , even though , for the price , you 'd have to go a very long way to beat it . |
| 5 | This can be contrasted with the centesimal scale where we may have to wait a fairly long time to ascertain the action of the remedy . |
| 6 | By the time Siward 's army had reached the plains by the Forth , it would have marched a very long way , and suffered fighting , and would be drawn , in any case , only from those regions Siward was master of , for neither Wessex nor Mercia , it was sure , would waste men on extending Northumbria 's empire . |
| 7 | And in the morning she would have to have a very long talk with Feargal 's mother . |
| 8 | Those actively interested in diamonds will have to wait a very long time before they will be able to put their hands on these cosmic ornaments . |