Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most extraordinary of these are the Cretaceous rudists ( p. 47 ) a group in which one valve became modified to a long cone , on which the other valve rested like a lid , the whole effect being most un-clammish . |
| 2 | Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time . |
| 3 | The phone seemed to ring for a long time . |
| 4 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
| 5 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |