Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 The debt was written off in a long , slow reckoning of my own , though by the time I reached my mid-teens I already had a certainty of the future waiting — a void to be filled as I chose , with nothing predetermined .
2 For it was born out of a long histtory of protest .
3 Mr Nyers was speaking shortly after a long procedural wrangle on the method of electing the new leadership .
4 The flare had drifted slowly down behind the church on the village green and was followed quickly by a long burst of automatic fire .
5 I was born in May 1947 , when the whole of Britain was thawing out of a long , freezing winter made crueller by a fuel crisis .
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