Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [verb] [art] long [noun sg] " 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 clockwise even though it means coming the long way round
14 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 .
15 It does take a long while does n't it ?
16 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 .
17 It 's got a long history , lots of it confused as you 'd expect in Oxford of course .
18 It 's got a long garden
19 That one 's nice over by there cos it 's got the long hair .
20 Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over .
21 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 .
22 Of course , it 's come a long way since then — full colour on every page , two Megatapes each month .
23 It 's come a long way
24 it 's come a long way since we had Lego .
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