Example sentences of "been [verb] long [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an obvious and necessary position which should have been filled long before . |
| 2 | We 'd have been stopped long ago . |
| 3 | That being the case how did it happen that a system which worked so ill had not been altered long ago ? |
| 4 | Surely , she mused , it had n't been raining long enough for the water levels to rise that far , and even though the middle of the week had proved consistently wet she felt confident she would arrive at the cottage long before the possibility became a reality . |
| 5 | So I said I know what he 's like , comes back and he turns up he says we 're just off now , I said oh you 've come back then I thought you were a bit rude just storming out of the funeral and not saying cheerio to everyone , he said I 've been insulted long enough by your family , I would n't be , I was n't prepared to be insulted any more |
| 6 | Judging that Miller had been snoring long enough , he shook him till he woke , and made him drive to Turnhouse . |
| 7 | If the issue of bias in psychological research were as simple as turning the methods and instruments prized by psychology into the service of defeating bias , many battles would have been won long ago . |
| 8 | Mosley said : ‘ We 've been listening long enough and the time has come to do something about it . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , Hong Kong 's flora and fauna are basically that of neighbouring China , though some islands must have been separated long enough to produce their own endemic species . |
| 10 | My promise had been made long ago . |
| 11 | The buildings would once have been the stables to the bigger houses out on the street , but now the bigger houses would all have been subdivided long ago and the stables leased off and converted . |
| 12 | ‘ He 'd been waiting long enough to see it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose we 've both been racing long enough now to know racing is racing . |
| 14 | Because of the long-term nature of the business ( many funds run for five years or more ) , there are comparatively few firms that have been going long enough to supply relevant data . |
| 15 | That old fallacy of Father Kipling 's had been exploded long ago , and should never have been taken seriously in any case . |
| 16 | The houses in Blackpool , London and Manchester had been sold long ago . |
| 17 | The latter looked admiringly at the other two who have been preserved long past their life expectancy . |
| 18 | ‘ Fred Proctor asked him to sit down as he had been speaking long enough . |
| 19 | Before the land bridge to North America emerged above the waters once again they had been isolated long enough to evolve as New World monkeys whose modern descendants walk on all fours and many of whom have prehensile tails . |
| 20 | The columns for support and supply had been alerted long ago , the clansmen waited only for the signal , and his great seal on the writs his messengers carried would bring them out to join him like bees from a hive disturbed . |
| 21 | Rejected by Tawney ( 1912 ) , this has now been fully vindicated by Dr Kerridge , who has shown that the security conferred on the copyholder by the law was not inferior to that enjoyed by the freeholder , and that it was not a subject for dispute in the courts during the sixteenth century ‘ for the simple reason that the question had been settled long before ’ . |
| 22 | The classification of decelerations as early , late , and variable , as used in the Dublin trial , seems best ; the terms ‘ type I ’ and ‘ II dips ’ are archaic and should have been abandoned long ago . |
| 23 | Would he reappear perhaps like Edwin Drood himself might have done if Mr Dickens had been spared long enough to conclude it ? |
| 24 | The main considerations in deciding whether to release such a prisoner are whether he or she has been detained long enough to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence for the offence and whether the potential risk to the public is judged to be acceptable . |
| 25 | Questions that should have been asked long ago are now being asked — and , more importantly , answered . |
| 26 | They did not pause in what they were doing , but all three of them knew , by the colour of the sky , by the beginnings of an unmistakeable pull around their hearts , that Alice had been gone long enough and would — must — soon be home again . |
| 27 | It was an unhappy end to a great career , but Jackie 's decision to retire had been taken long before : in April . |
| 28 | How times changed — now someone would express their concern ove whether the thing had been cooked long enough to annihilate any salmonella ! |
| 29 | In a more successful town the house would have undoubtedly been destroyed long ago . |
| 30 | No no er the money had been sanctioned long long time November , it was October . |