Example sentences of "had [be] [adj] for a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 2 | When the silence had been undisturbed for a long , chilly while he crept out of his nest and drew himself gently up the last few yards of broken rock into the long grass and bushes at the edge of the plateau . |
| 3 | Old John Knox had been ill for a long time and , two years after I joined the firm , he was told that he must retire . |
| 4 | Stable jockey Chris Grant said : ‘ He had been ill for a long while , but carried on because his horses were his life . ’ |
| 5 | But the poor woman had been ill for a long time , although we had not realized it , and died soon after Hareton was born . |
| 6 | She knew the woman had been dead for a long time . |
| 7 | Ty Fach had been dead for a long time . |