Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] a long [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | His philosophy took a long time to be appreciated , partly because he never pushed his own work , which was subsequently overshadowed by that of Wittgenstein . |
| 2 | He called in his full executive to meet us and I 'm sure at the end of the day that this meeting went a long way to the tour going ahead instead of being cancelled ’ . |
| 3 | The golden pavilion and the peacock feathers flared and were gone in an instant , but the Hill of Heaven took a long while to cave in , and Hell burned with a black , acrid smoke billowing out of its throat . |
| 4 | He looked at the stiff unbending features of the recruiter for a moment : the dark hollows around his eyes and his dry , parchment-like skin betrayed a long addiction to opium , and Duclos guessed that hid irritability stemmed for this . |
| 5 | A month seemed a long time to him too . |