Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] a long [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five weeks is a long time to spend on a boat with only 20 people , and the scientists traded stories and theories the entire time . |
| 2 | ‘ Ah , Maria , six years is a long time to wait , ’ Luke murmured with a faint sardonic smile as he registered her frantic response . |
| 3 | Twenty years was a long time to bear dependence if your spirit craved something stronger and your intelligence rebelled at continual submission to powers who neither , Anna felt , knew or cared how she and Peter lived . |
| 4 | Thirty years was a long time to stay with one company . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , two microseconds is a long time compared with many things that happen in and around the atomic nucleus , and the muon has a chance to initiate several fusions before it dies . |
| 6 | " The police are a long time getting here , " he said . |
| 7 | Eight hours is a long time to wait to play three games , ’ said Sanchez , last year 's runner-up to Monica Seles . |
| 8 | But the reason we , unlike the Americans , have no telephones on planes is largely because a consensus on frequencies was a long time coming . |