Example sentences of "[coord] they [vb past] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And they took a long time making it .
2 And they took a long time serving it .
3 She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past .
4 Fortunately , Viktor valued him and they had a long association before he ever worked with Irina .
5 Leeds do play a lot of football , but they hit a long ball as well .
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