Example sentences of "have [be] [art] [adv] long time " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I am very sorry , ’ he said , ‘ but you must understand it has been a very long time
2 It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan .
3 ‘ It has been an awful long time just getting to this stage , but it will be worth it if we can succeed . ’
4 Anyway , it had been a very long time ago , goodness gracious , it had been at least six years .
5 It 's been an awful long time for this part has n't it ?
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