Example sentences of "would have been a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Oh it would have been a long while after the war yes . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ That was the turning point — had I gone 2-1 down it would have been a long way back ’ said the Ayrshire man later . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |