Example sentences of "[vb past] been long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then much of this leeway was made up and the capacity being there er , well the hours of work were getting tackled then , they 'd been longer hours and er I think as a a boy coming out of apprenticeship , er the forty seven hour week had come into being . |
| 2 | There had been long lines of farmers and farm workers on both sides . |
| 3 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 4 | Dr Kelleher had been working in close cooperation with Dr Laurent and there had been long consultations in the Pathology Lab . |
| 5 | There had been long weeks when he lay sunk in gloom and introspection . |