Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [art] [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the need to provide so many public areas which produced the enormously long frontages of these stations , the buildings often as long as the platforms themselves . |
| 2 | Close beside Xi is the huge eclipsing binary VV Cephei , which has the very long period of 7430 days ; the next eclipse is not due until 1996 , when the magnitude will drop from its usual 4.9 to about 5.2 . |
| 3 | It runs out of steam at 60 , which takes an awful long time to achieve and the first hint of a hill its down the box to third . |
| 4 | We had questions at the very beginning of this meeting which seems an awful long time ago now er asking for youth provision in other areas of the county . |
| 5 | Which took a very long time . |
| 6 | I waited , cold and tired , in his room for what seemed a very long time . |
| 7 | She talked to me for what seemed a very long time . |
| 8 | We stood there , all four of us , in silence for what seemed a very long time . |
| 9 | She waited what seemed an interminably long time before the same young maid again confronted her . |