Example sentences of "it [verb] an [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 2 | So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway . |
| 3 | It takes an awful long time for you to regain that and to feel safe in your own homes . |
| 4 | Beat it for ten minutes , that 's it seems an awfully long time to just stand there and . |
| 5 | It was still switched through to the secretary 's office , and it took an infuriatingly long time to get a line . |
| 6 | For , I think we 'd probably better keep you going for , how about six da hmm for five days , that 's actually quite a long course for this stuff cos it lasts an awful long time in the body . |
| 7 | ‘ Does n't it seem an awfully long way away , now ? ’ |