Example sentences of "[adv] long [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 2 | Right , I think we 've been going on long enough and I think you 've been sitting there long enough , ha |
| 3 | Once upon a time , long long ago and far far away , out in the dreamlands , there was another Margaret just like you . |
| 4 | West Indian cricket has been strong for so long principally because it is looked upon almost as a religion in the Caribbean . |
| 5 | ‘ England is an island without sea , or else an island that used to be sea-bound , only so long ago that the sea 's now evaporated . ’ |
| 6 | School was so long ago that we had passed into each others ' mythology , like people who met distantly in another country . |
| 7 | But it was not so long ago that many leading Tories faulted it for being mismanaged , diffused , uncertain , failing to set the agenda ; in a word , bad . |
| 8 | Deborah Dean had been nicknamed Dimity so long ago that the reason for the diminutive had been lost in the mists of time . |
| 9 | The long-established Manx cat is certainly as abnormal as any of them , with its strangely abbreviated backbone and the problems this causes , but its presence at cat shows was accepted so long ago that nobody now objects to its inclusion . |
| 10 | A detective said : ‘ Some of the murders he says he committed so long ago that he has difficulty in remembering where the bodies are buried . |
| 11 | ‘ It was so long ago that I 've almost forgotten . |
| 12 | The CICB said the woman were abused so long ago that their cases had to be considered under the pre-1979 rules which excluded compensation for offences committed by relatives living under the same roof . |
| 13 | It was so long ago that it happened — it 's an everyday occurrence now , people battering and killing children . |
| 14 | They were great fiddlers of long ago it 's not so long ago that I mind there was five fiddlers in our kitchen in Dalvaine , just each coming with a just to have a night at the fiddle . |
| 15 | ‘ Did n't I tell you not so long ago that there was only one area of my life I could countenance sharing with you — and that purely out of necessity ? ’ |
| 16 | Well I , he lived at Stowmarket for years but then I heard not so long ago that they had moved to Ipswich but where I do n't know but they must be , whether he 's than I have now I do n't know either . |
| 17 | Well I heard not so long ago that they were going to either pull it down or |
| 18 | It is n't so long ago that the advocates of population control were being attacked not from the right but from the left . |
| 19 | ( submerged so long ago that the neighbours |
| 20 | It happened so long ago that it seems incredible that it is still affecting her . |
| 21 | It 's not so long ago that Kilmarnock were talking about wanting to go up as champions and look at them now . |
| 22 | She spoke charitably of what happened so long ago but her attitude was to grow colder as the evening wore on . |
| 23 | 250 They 've become accustomed What they 're forgetting is that this fits in with the stated local plan and with original proposals set out in 1989 which is n't so long ago but people tend to forget that sort of thing 328 |
| 24 | According to Rupert Sutcliffe , the most senior member of the Department , and its most pertinacious gossip , there was a time not so long ago when Philip Swallow was for ever swanning around the globe on some conference jaunt or other . |
| 25 | According to Mrs Whitehouse , there was a time not so long ago when the Church was , and was seen to be , the defender of both public and private morality . |
| 26 | Alec Smith told vividly of the change he has found — from the days not so long ago when he was a rebel against all organised society , and cherishing hate against certain specific people . |
| 27 | As clearly as she recalled that spring day so long ago when she had received the small wound . |
| 28 | And another instance of that was well this was not so long ago when we had a loan of a barge from just a mini landing craft sort of thing where the front of it folded down . |
| 29 | All seems so long ago and far away . |
| 30 | Otherwise I have no doubt you would have done so long ago and at some length . |