Example sentences of "be [adj] [art] [adj] time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it had all been such a long time ago ! |
| 2 | The Swiss crew was stroked by Jeremy West , the French crew included East German veteran Rudi Helm , the USSR/Italian team included masters Schaparenko and Tichenko and there was a USSR/Israeli crew , something which would have been unthinkable a short time before . |
| 3 | Jackets that had been second-hand a long time ago , trousers the same . |
| 4 | But as you said , Harri , it 's such a long time ago . |
| 5 | It 's all a long time ago and I 've been married to him for thirty-nine years . |
| 6 | It 's all a long time ago now of course . |
| 7 | This element of the second stanza creates a sensation that Tithonus now refers to himself as a completely different man to what he was in his youth as it was such a long time ago . |
| 8 | She 'd stood there at the door where he was such a short time before . |
| 9 | ‘ That was all a long time ago now . ’ |
| 10 | But that was all a long time ago , was n't it ? |
| 11 | As I told you that was all a long time ago . |
| 12 | ‘ It is none of my affair and , besides , it was all a long time ago . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , well … that was all a long time ago , ’ Laura said firmly . |
| 14 | ‘ Sometimes I sang with Lingdale Silver Band , ’ she says , ‘ but it was all a long time ago . ’ |