Example sentences of "[conj] a very long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choose the right Koi and it could be an investment for life — choose the wrong one and you could be a very short — or a very long time regretting your mistake . |
| 2 | If the actual delivery or the birth of the baby had been difficult , traumatic for example a forceps delivery or a very long labour , where the baby and the mum got very tired and exhausted If there 's any , if there 's any congenital amalgamation we can discuss it |
| 3 | The air was cold on stage , the little orchestra seemed to be down a mine and all she could see was a very small bald head and a very long baton . |
| 4 | England , on the other hand , had a comparatively short Romanesque period of development following an extensive Saxon one but a very long and a unique building period in Gothic architecture emerging into a tardy Renaissance , nearly the last in Europe except for that of the Iberian peninsula . |
| 5 | ‘ Once or twice , but a very long time ago , ’ Andrew said . |
| 6 | But here in Chichester Chairman , it 's er a pretty serious situation where you 've got a a small river causing tremendous volumes of water er levels of which I think have never been experienced with anybody er going through a very small city built in eighteen hundreds I do n't know what time and date you know , but a very long time ago . |
| 7 | After a very long time the young man had not reappeared . |
| 8 | ‘ All that happened is that I over-reacted , ’ he said at last , after a very long pause . |
| 9 | After a very long time Yussuf appeared . |
| 10 | One , for example , oh five , six years ago , perhaps more , time passes so quickly erm on the Lewes to Wych Cross road , closed the road at Dane Hill for a very long period of time , while the road was completely reconstructed . |