Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adj] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are all I 've got , all I 've got left to build my life on ; my life has been one long frustration , and to stand aside and see you throw yourself away on scum like … ’ |
| 2 | His life here has been one long series of decisions taken with difficulty , of crises resolved . |
| 3 | Fingerspelling has been available longer and there have been studies of it . |
| 4 | ‘ And you ca n't have been married long . |
| 5 | But he said it would be quite wrong to say that the country 's history had been one long mistake since the revolution . |
| 6 | Many of the children , even if not born in Ireland , were of Irish parents who had left behind appalling deprivation in their homeland and whose lives had been one long struggle for survival . |
| 7 | In fact you 've been one long disappointment , old bean . ’ |
| 8 | These are those who have been unemployed longest , and generally speaking are very young claimants with few skills , or older workers who , by the length of this unemployment , have been de-skilled . |
| 9 | It 's been seven long years since they ran the riot act , but there remains a threatening air of petulance and possibility about their onstage demeanour that throws a star-spangled spanner into the works . |