Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Which took a very long time . |
| 4 | I waited , cold and tired , in his room for what seemed a very long time . |
| 5 | She talked to me for what seemed a very long time . |
| 6 | We stood there , all four of us , in silence for what seemed a very long time . |
| 7 | She waited what seemed an interminably long time before the same young maid again confronted her . |