Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that , in 1957 , seemed a very long way off . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It seemed a very long time before he came back . |
| 5 | I waited , cold and tired , in his room for what seemed a very long time . |
| 6 | The two miles to Casterbridge seemed a very long way to the woman , who was tired and ill . |
| 7 | She talked to me for what seemed a very long time . |
| 8 | We stood there , all four of us , in silence for what seemed a very long time . |
| 9 | There followed a rather long and embarrassing silence . |
| 10 | For her part , Mrs Thatcher emphasised that the references to future German unity in the declaration was ‘ a very carefully drafted section and we spent a very long time on it ’ . |
| 11 | The effect was electric : the girl was released within a few days ; the man remained in jail and in fact served a very long sentence . |
| 12 | It was difficult to x-ray his leg so far up , and as it was a small machine and needed a relatively long exposure it was hard to get a clear picture with him shaking as the poor boy was doing by this time . |
| 13 | Although viruses have such a simple structure , biologists do not conclude that they are necessarily ‘ primitive ’ ; that is , that they evolved a very long time ago as precursors of more complex organisms . |
| 14 | The news that she had in fact been successful in her interview went a very long way to ease her bruised feelings — so much so that when the day dawned when she was to start her new job she almost forgot to pull her hair back into a screwed-up knot , and to don her glasses . |
| 15 | He chose a very long one and realising it was too long chose a smaller one . |
| 16 | He took a terribly long time to clean his hands . |
| 17 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |
| 18 | ‘ It took a very long time to reconcile myself with my father . ’ |
| 19 | The bus took a very long and roundabout route to Linby , through a dozen tiny villages and hamlets , but Cheryl thought the journey was worth it when Jessica handed her the promised signalling flags . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's easy to edit now electronically , but in those days , where editing was done by looking down a microscope for a metal ink pulse , cutting the tape physically with a guillotine and then joining edges together with sticky tape , it took a very long time and could be very wasteful . ’ |
| 21 | Which took a very long time . |
| 22 | She took a very long and deep breath . |
| 23 | He took a very long time over it and in the end just lipped the hole . |
| 24 | However , there 's no doubt the blitz on the weeds on our return from holiday took a disproportionately long spell . |
| 25 | Thank you Chairman erm this is , this is er er obviously er a very important item , but I think that most of the information that it contains would already be familiar to members erm and bearing in mind that I , I 've only a moment or two ago gave a very long answer to Mr 's question when I , I could simply have said yes . |
| 26 | The subordinate status of professionals lasted a very long time indeed . |
| 27 | We waited a very long time in growing unease . |
| 28 | He waited a very long time before saying , ‘ Talk , talk , talk , a man ca n't get a word in edgeways . ’ |
| 29 | They waited a very long time for his answer . |
| 30 | The knife he slid towards her and into the butter had a menacingly long shadow blade . |