Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [verb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if a child mutates in a big way , so that it has moved a long distance away from its parent in genetic space , what are the odds of its being better than its parent ? |
| 2 | Another dealer explained : ‘ There are some punters who will buy a stock just because it has fallen a long way . ’ |
| 3 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
| 4 | It has come a long way in the last decade . |
| 5 | One of these types is the de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou and over the years it has attracted a long list of very satisfied customers . |
| 6 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
| 7 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 8 | ‘ It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added . |
| 9 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
| 10 | It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived . |
| 11 | It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement . |
| 12 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 13 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 14 | It does take a long while does n't it ? |
| 15 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 16 | It 's got a long history , lots of it confused as you 'd expect in Oxford of course . |
| 17 | It 's got a long garden |
| 18 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |
| 19 | It was then , and still is now , very much an island holiday paradise , but it 's come a long way from what were fairly basic beginnings and in addition to natural beauty can now offer resorts as modern and sophisticated as anywhere else in the Med . |
| 20 | Of course , it 's come a long way since then — full colour on every page , two Megatapes each month . |
| 21 | It 's come a long way |
| 22 | it 's come a long way since we had Lego . |