Example sentences of "it [modal v] have [be] a long " in BNC.
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1 | It must have been a long summer holiday because I managed to be there both for the haymaking and the harvest . |
2 | It must have been a long time ago . |
3 | It must have been a long day for a boy of that age . |
4 | Whitaker also had Gammon entered in the World Cup final but , as his wife Claire said yesterday : ‘ It would have been a long way to go with just one horse . |
5 | It would have been a long story , the warming of friendship and respect between the barrel-chested Iraqi Colonel and the young man from England who had proved he could stalk and kill . |
6 | It would have been a long walk to here , and no doubt some other person would have been offering a dubious lift by the time she arrived . |
7 | ‘ That was the turning point — had I gone 2-1 down it would have been a long way back ’ said the Ayrshire man later . |
8 | Oh it would have been a long while after the war yes . |