Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] [adv] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has been here a long time and will be here for even longer , ’ Felipe answered smoothly . |
| 2 | This siter has been here a long time and is part of the area . |
| 3 | After an early phase of rapid growth initiated by enterprising , indigenous farmers and leading to an increasingly capitalist social structure , by 1939 the Ghanaian cocoa industry had entered what has been generally a long decline accompanied by reduced employment of wage-labour . |
| 4 | Erm , er I 'll I 'll close it at two , but perhaps I could ask the the applicants erm , I mean I appreciate that obviously erm it er it economy in in in obviously in what you 're doing , but I think it it it would be fairly obviously to , I mean it 's been stated that that that that residents nearby would prefer either two bungalows or a house and a bungalow , and I think er that certainly erm new developments adjacent to where you are proposing these are in fact all bungalows , er with the exception of the mill , which of course has been there a long time , er all those on that side of the road , both those two built and those two proposed are a bungalow or a semi bungalow , er and so erm you can see that obviously it is that the height of these buildings , it is erm causing the offence , largely , erm I I think , I mean obviously you will want to main you know , optimize your er development , but whether er a scheme with two bungalows that they would n't be four bedroomed bungalows , because there would n't be room for two of the four two four bedroomed bungalows , erm |
| 5 | She 's been here a long time , of course , from Father Collins 's days . |
| 6 | She 's been here a long time , about ten years . |
| 7 | She 's been here a long time , on and off , she knows the place well . |
| 8 | And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June . |
| 9 | His father 's been dead a long time and he has-had — two brothers . ’ |
| 10 | Well he 's been there a long while . |
| 11 | Well it 's been there a long time . |
| 12 | Good god that 's been there a long time . |
| 13 | I think er in an effort to accommodate Mr Chairman , the members here this evening , it 's been quite a long day , the the Conservative amendment is very close to the amendment that both er myself and Mr have put in and yes we would be willing to accept that , I think we 've got the point across which the only thing missing from the Conservative amendment is the thing about the airport money . |