Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [vb pp] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , you 'd think things had changed a long time ago but erm I remember having Chrissy in that yard when he was a baby in his pushchair where and there was the coalman 's horse and erm |
| 2 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
| 3 | It was agreed this was not easy to do and it illustrated that deciding whether pupils had attained a long list of criteria would be a very considerable task . |
| 4 | He had quite liked the thought of being fit and athletic some time in the future , although the signs had taken a long time coming . |
| 5 | It was a day that twenty one soldiers had waited a long time to see . |
| 6 | The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " . |
| 7 | Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 . |