Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [vb past] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , all this business happened a long time ago . |
| 2 | He called in his full executive to meet us and I 'm sure at the end of the day that this meeting went a long way to the tour going ahead instead of being cancelled ’ . |
| 3 | The sweet taste of this victory lingered a long time on the lips of Dublin dykes . |
| 4 | Her later research in this area involved a long study of the complex genetic interactions in Matthiola incana , on which she published twenty-two papers . |
| 5 | The same research also shows , however , that the ‘ class ’ basis of support for the parties is now weakening significantly , and that even at its peak this phenomenon fell a long way short of the Marxist conception of political ‘ class consciousness ’ . |