Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [verb] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead .
2 Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face .
3 If it 's a professional job they will have been observed over a long period and their habits and financial status will be known . ’
4 Those opening words from Marx 's Capital could have been written about the long postwar boom , the most striking feature of which was a quite breathtaking growth in production .
5 Some ore was so intermixed with gangue however , that the concentration by hand was extremely laborious and the mill must have been needed for a long time .
6 The cereals grown would have been taken down the long lane to the water mill to be ground for flour , whilst vegetables , poultry and perhaps pigs would have been raised in the crofts behind each farmstead in the village street .
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