Example sentences of "a long [noun] to find " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The device looks simple , but it took a long time to find companies that could make it , ’ he says . |
| 2 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
| 3 | Clambering over rocks and following narrow sheep trails — which tended to peter out disconcertingly in the thick bracken — it took me a long time to find a possible beck-traversing spot . |
| 4 | It took me a long time to find . |
| 5 | I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words . |
| 6 | ‘ Because it took me such a long time to find you . ’ |
| 7 | It may have taken me a long time to find out about him . |
| 8 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
| 9 | The man did n't have a long time to go through a process , he did n't have a long time to find where he was on on the scale , a and er , you know , from one stage to the next stage , to the next stage , to got through a pre-evangelism and then another stage , and another stage , the man did n't have time he was dying ! |
| 10 | Erm that 's the plan of course it it will take us a long time to find something suitable . |