Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I also know that you spent a summer on rather a long walk . |
| 2 | being the Chief Clerk and then turned left and down quite a long corridor , which in those days was erm shorned up with four by four timber posts because er , presumably they thought if the County Hall got a direct hit the ceiling might come down |
| 3 | So quite a long job , |
| 4 | It was not only a long job , but a painful one for Deborah , the backs of whose hands were pricked , scored and smeared with blood before she succeeded in freeing the lamb altogether . |
| 5 | She miss you velly much a long time . |
| 6 | One explanation might be that five years is still not a long enough lead time . |
| 7 | She was still quite a long way from Yatton Farm , but the windmill on its hillock could be clearly seen from the farm . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's still quite a long way off , ’ said Masklin . |
| 9 | but it was n't like a long thing but like I , the time that I spent with him was like quite a long time , like the evening , whatever , so he 'd get , and like it just used to be constant pauses , it used to be terrible and so we used to get off with each other like you pause for , for what |
| 10 | Hazel reached the hedge , crossed a narrow turf verge on the other side and found himself looking straight down a long , shadowy aisle between two rows of beans . |
| 11 | I am sure that all hon. Members will welcome that increase , although there is clearly still a long way to go to reflect the fact that women constitute 51 per cent . |
| 12 | She 's been up there a long time has n't she ? |
| 13 | The cottage lay back quite a long way from the path , but Virginia slowed down and stepped past it with quick , light steps . |
| 14 | Fly ran the Hackney branch of a chainstore opticians and we went back quite a long way together as OADFs go . |
| 15 | but it was n't like a long thing but like I , the time that I spent with him was like quite a long time , like the evening , whatever , so he 'd get , and like it just used to be constant pauses , it used to be terrible and so we used to get off with each other like you pause for , for what |
| 16 | I remember particularly well a long discussion we had on a bright sunny day in Austria in 1983 , on the subject of the relative importance of car and driver . |
| 17 | right quite a long way west |
| 18 | I would have thought that we might go on holiday , well going on quite a long holiday , we 're going on holiday after the project video 's completed , so it 'll be Christmas for me |
| 19 | No that 's not I just thought to change a wash , cos I think they 've been on there rather a long time . |
| 20 | If their complexion was their most celebrated feature , then perhaps a long necklace of perfect pearls . |
| 21 | With the price of oil falling , then probably a long way . |
| 22 | She 's been up there quite a long time has n't she ? |
| 23 | Once upon a time , there was waking , which was slow and painful , and then quite a long period , replete with chances and triumphs and defeats and risks , which sometimes , though not always , ended in lunch . |
| 24 | If they succeed in finding a cure not only will the spines be restored to the hedgehogs but there will almost certainly a long queue of humans eager to try it out . |
| 25 | Grant was moving steadily down a long gentle slope . |
| 26 | And be especially careful with formulations of the kind illustrated in the examples below ; do not be misled by a direct interrogative — the answer is never just a long version of " yes " or " no " : |
| 27 | For , I think we 'd probably better keep you going for , how about six da hmm for five days , that 's actually quite a long course for this stuff cos it lasts an awful long time in the body . |