Example sentences of "[been] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been a long story , the warming of friendship and respect between the barrel-chested Iraqi Colonel and the young man from England who had proved he could stalk and kill . |
| 2 | Oh it would have been a long while after the war yes . |
| 3 | ‘ It has just been a long battle for us all . |
| 4 | To a few of us it may seem like only yesterday , but to the Princess , I suspect , it has been a long decade , for she has completed a most extraordinary metamorphosis . |
| 5 | Blast , it had been a long night . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's been a long night . |
| 7 | Phil Farrand says it is brilliant … it has been a long slog and has meant a lot of hard work |
| 8 | It 's been a long road back from those dark and confused days , and Pam is grateful for whatever she can achieve these days . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's been a long road , ’ said their coach , Toni Szifris , who has guided the nucleus of the team from a group of minis , playing in Portobello , through high school . |
| 10 | They both drank , conscious that it had been a long afternoon , and Shelley at least was thirsty . |
| 11 | It 's been a long journey . |
| 12 | There has been a long resistance to accepting that , in spite of the logical stringency with which laws in science are formulated , interrelated and tested , their origin has never ceased to be the same . |
| 13 | Most of this is in the northwest where there has been a long history of land-use , involving both degradation and successful reclamation . |
| 14 | There has been a long tradition of professional marketing activities by a wide spectrum of non-profit making organisations including political parties , the Health Education Council with its anti-smoking campaign , the Right to Read programme , Oxfam , Christian Aid and the Salvation Army . |
| 15 | In Devon and Cornwall indeed there seems to have been a long tradition of piratical and privateering activity in addition to legitimate trade , which may well have laid the foundation for the activities of seamen from this part of the country in the Elizabethan age ( 63 , pp.159–60 ) . |
| 16 | It 's been a long drive . |
| 17 | It has been a long day , but there are still a couple of hours to run , and this is Berlin , where anything can happen . |
| 18 | Everyone is contemplating an early night — it has been a long day , one of the busiest for a while . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's been a long day . ’ |
| 20 | It 's been a long day of trundling past an infinity of fir trees , and photographer Ridgers has hardly survived it . |
| 21 | It 's been a long day . |
| 22 | It had been a long day . ’ |
| 23 | He then telephoned Nigel 's relations for me , for which I was most grateful — it had been a long day . |
| 24 | ‘ I know it 's been a long day but I want you to drive to Sion tonight . |
| 25 | It had been a long day — twelve hours with Mobuto , eight of those in the United Nations building where Mobuto and his entourage had spent the day . |
| 26 | It had been a long day . |
| 27 | It 's been a long day . |
| 28 | It 's been a long day . |
| 29 | He was philosophical , not to say laid back about the inconvenience of being called out unnecessarily at the end of what had already been a long day . |
| 30 | It had been a long day for him already , and if he made it back before nine he was going to be lucky . |