Example sentences of "it be [adj] a long time " in BNC.
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1 | It 's all a long time ago and I 've been married to him for thirty-nine years . |
2 | It 's all a long time ago now of course . |
3 | I did try and help her about how to run a war because it 's such a long time since anybody 's run a war — I mean the technical methods of running a war — which she did very well . |
4 | But as you said , Harri , it 's such a long time ago . |
5 | It was all a long time , such a very long time , ago . |
6 | ‘ It is none of my affair and , besides , it was all a long time ago . ’ |
7 | ‘ Sometimes I sang with Lingdale Silver Band , ’ she says , ‘ but it was all a long time ago . ’ |
8 | Not because she could n't remember , but because it was such a long time since she 'd seen her and she felt strange , suddenly , knowing that this time tomorrow they would be on their way to Scotland and she would be waiting for them . |
9 | This element of the second stanza creates a sensation that Tithonus now refers to himself as a completely different man to what he was in his youth as it was such a long time ago . |