Example sentences of "[verb] [been] so long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has been so long , and this must be Perdita . ’ |
| 2 | treaty was actually signed and the process has been so long and er various people have been er As it were , knocked with the Danish referendum , the french referendum , and John Major 's had his own difficulties in getting through the house of commons . |
| 3 | The recession might not have been so long nor so deep had she listened . |
| 4 | She had been so long without a woman friend . |
| 5 | It had been so long for her she was like a dam waiting to burst . |
| 6 | Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment . |
| 7 | Sydney Samuelson , the British Film Commissioner , whose father opened a cinema in Southport in 1910 , said his association with the industry had been so long that he remembered receiving a letter signed Wil Napoleon asking how to become an extra . |
| 8 | I am sorry I have been so long in replying but I only got your letter two days ago . |
| 9 | It 's been so long . ’ |
| 10 | It 's been so long . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's been so long I 've forgotten what 's it like , but this game gives me the chance to change that . |
| 12 | It 's been so long . |
| 13 | ‘ Claudia , oh , Gemini girl , it 's been so long . |
| 14 | It 's been so long now that I see the title as my right . ’ |
| 15 | But it 's been so long . |
| 16 | It 's been so long , Ruth . ’ |