Example sentences of "it [verb] [be] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Phil Farrand says it is brilliant … it has been a long slog and has meant a lot of hard work |
2 | To a few of us it may seem like only yesterday , but to the Princess , I suspect , it has been a long decade , for she has completed a most extraordinary metamorphosis . |
3 | It has been a long day , but there are still a couple of hours to run , and this is Berlin , where anything can happen . |
4 | Everyone is contemplating an early night — it has been a long day , one of the busiest for a while . |
5 | ‘ I do n't usually do that , but it has been a long day . ’ |
6 | God it 's only quarter past two , it has been a long day in n it ? |
7 | It has been a long time since the women 's game has been so open ; hopefully it will continue . |
8 | I thought I would go home when I left but it has been a long time . |
9 | It has been a long time . |
10 | This is a very beautiful music , serene , noble , discreet , poignant , composed , grief-stricken , understated , sublime — it has been a long time since I discovered anything quite so touching . |
11 | With more and more database engines sitting on networked servers , it has been a long time coming — the tricky bit , says Shandell is implementing ‘ remote queue pointers ’ . |
12 | It has been a long time coming , and apparently impatient fans bombard the Pan press office weekly for information on its appearance . |
13 | ‘ It has been a long time , Warren , ’ she said evenly . |
14 | ‘ Well , it has been a long time , and I expect you and Marissa … ’ |
15 | ‘ Well , ’ she taunted foolishly , ‘ it has been a long time . ’ |
16 | Blast , it had been a long night . |
17 | They both drank , conscious that it had been a long afternoon , and Shelley at least was thirsty . |
18 | It had been a long day . ’ |
19 | He then telephoned Nigel 's relations for me , for which I was most grateful — it had been a long day . |
20 | It had been a long day — twelve hours with Mobuto , eight of those in the United Nations building where Mobuto and his entourage had spent the day . |
21 | It had been a long day . |
22 | It had been a long day for him already , and if he made it back before nine he was going to be lucky . |
23 | It had been a long day at the end of a busy week , but that was n't all of it . |
24 | It had been a long day . |
25 | It had been a long day and she had absorbed a lot of information on the subject that was uppermost in her mind . |
26 | It had been a long day for our guests , as they had left La Loupe at 1Opm on the Friday evening , so it was home to bed for a good night 's sleep , ready for a full day exploring on the Sunday . |
27 | It had been a long day — the children safely delivered to Grandma , the freezer full of food ( for a husband to cope on his own ) , leotards and tights packed along with all the other paraphernalia needed for a Medau display . |
28 | It had been a long ride to an enclosure full of low single-storeyed huts of corrugated iron with cinder paths around , and all set in a large flat field of sparse greying grass . |
29 | It had been a long walk so far , and it was n't over . |
30 | It had been a long walk , but Travis was barely breathing hard , a fact she wished she had n't noticed because it underlined his strength and she found that such a potent attraction . |