Example sentences of "[verb] a [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scot has a briskish pace and does n't need a particularly long run , as he proved the other week against Hampshire . |
| 2 | However desirable this might be , in a highly complex and differentiated society such as ours this undertaking would need a very long time given our present methods , resources and interests . |
| 3 | The idea prompted Leapor to write a rather long poem about the follies of ambition , entitled ‘ Mopsus , or , The Castle Builder ’ . |
| 4 | To leap from this standpoint to the assumption that we have an everlasting soul is to leap a very long way — probably too far . |
| 5 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 6 | Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way . |
| 7 | He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories . |
| 8 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 9 | → When you think of Fender 's seeming unwillingness to bring the reissues of the Indie-cred Jaguar into this country , Jim , I think we 'll probably wait a very long time before a Bass VI emanates from anywhere other than the Fender Custom Shop — a facility available to the wad-carrying fanatic . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll wait a very long time to do that , ’ he gritted . |
| 11 | The radioactive potassium has a very long half-life ( 1250 million years ) so that the amount lost is extremely small relative to the total amount of potassium present and can not be measured . |
| 12 | Direct perception by psychics of energy manifestations in the landscape has a very long history . |
| 13 | It has a very long neck like a duck , and the front of the body sometimes has a faint purple tinge . |
| 14 | Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control . |
| 15 | Joint Planning , it seems to me , still has a very long way to go . |
| 16 | However , the volume of research varies considerably from one polytechnic to another and , in general , it has a very long way to go before it begins to approach that generated within universities . |
| 17 | sorry , erm this budget has a very long gestation period er I 'm on version twelve I think at the last count and I hope there is n't gon na be a version thirteen . |
| 18 | Britain has a fairly long winter , and I know of only a few very hardy souls who are willing to go gold prospecting during this season . |
| 19 | As West has 6 Hearts , he is likely to be short in all the other suits , and with East returning the King of Clubs , there is a suggestion that he has a fairly long suit . |
| 20 | ‘ This is something I should 'ave done a very long time ago . |
| 21 | The tenant should therefore initially attempt to delete clause 5.2.2 , but if this is not accepted a sufficiently long date should be inserted in it . |
| 22 | And that , in 1957 , seemed a very long way off . |
| 23 | In some ways those days when she had lived in Paula 's shadow seemed a very long time ago , in others they might have been just yesterday . |
| 24 | It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost . |
| 25 | It seemed a very long time before he came back . |
| 26 | I waited , cold and tired , in his room for what seemed a very long time . |
| 27 | The two miles to Casterbridge seemed a very long way to the woman , who was tired and ill . |
| 28 | She talked to me for what seemed a very long time . |
| 29 | We stood there , all four of us , in silence for what seemed a very long time . |
| 30 | Thus it would seem that the ‘ dawn of civilisation ’ , so often quoted in a context suggesting that it represents a fairly finite occurrence taking a relatively short space of time , did , in all probability cover a very long time indeed , perhaps many thousands of years . |