Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adv] long " in BNC.

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1 He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat !
2 Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way .
3 He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories .
4 She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent .
5 With only 32 horse power available I had expected a considerably longer ground , but we were off the ground in about 150 metres , although from then on acceleration and climb were adequate rather than startling .
6 England seem to have come an awfully long way simply to discover that it 's a small world , and the Irish did not need reminding about Murphy 's Law .
7 As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby .
8 ‘ This is something I should 'ave done a very long time ago .
9 The tenant should therefore initially attempt to delete clause 5.2.2 , but if this is not accepted a sufficiently long date should be inserted in it .
10 backing up , when I er , at , at the appeal , the medical centre made a very long presentation over the proximity , the closeness to their erm , surgery and they argued about the height of buildings , now it got passed as sheltered united , er , which means elderly and quiet occupancy .
11 She 's got a much longer face than me , the ideal face .
12 ‘ We have got a very long and relevant association with football which is the nation 's number one sport .
13 But it is t it is erm very good they 've got a very long waiting list I was helping
14 but he 's got a long inside leg measurement , he says yes I 've got a very long inside measur leg measurement , I 'm thirty one inside leg and I thought
15 So far , we 've actually managed to characterise about 1600 of that 50,000 and so we 've got a very long way to go .
16 You 've had a little longer to form an opinion than I have .
17 ‘ Yet in the long run — and we have already had a pretty long run — the results are potentially devastating . ’
18 ‘ I 've had a very long and happy life without sex .
19 Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years
20 ‘ He does n't usually throw tantrums , ’ Ashley said ruefully , as Vitor came round from the boot , ‘ but he has had a very long day . ’
21 He 's had a very long and trying ordeal , and apart from his physical injuries he 's had the cold and damp to deal with too , so his body 's had a pretty severe challenge .
22 why were the Neanderthals , who as a species of human being had had a much longer pedigree , vulnerable to the Cro-Magnons ?
23 That 's still got an awful long way to go .
24 And I 'm afraid that as all I 've seen is one miscalculated mishap after another you 've got an awful long way to go before I 'm convinced of anything .
25 ‘ We 've travelled a tremendously long road and this is a great day for us , ’ he said .
26 It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere .
27 By the time Siward 's army had reached the plains by the Forth , it would have marched a very long way , and suffered fighting , and would be drawn , in any case , only from those regions Siward was master of , for neither Wessex nor Mercia , it was sure , would waste men on extending Northumbria 's empire .
28 In comparison with the inhibition effect , however , this facilitation only occurred when the subject was given a relatively long time to read the context .
29 It is a burden that Russia could do without , but at least it is far cheaper than maintaining an army of occupation in what Richard III might have called the very long winter of discontent .
30 This one came just as eyelids were beginning to droop at Tynecastle on Saturday when Hearts and Hibs staged the latest in what has become a very long series of tedious confrontations .
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