Example sentences of "[is] [adv] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Three years , I admit , is rather a long time . |
| 2 | Six years alone is rather a long time . ’ |
| 3 | Gasgcoine is rather a long word to say so I suppose the boys at school call him Gazza . |
| 4 | He began explaining , straight on , then first right , on to the second set of lights … etcetera … etcetera … it 's rather a long walk , sir , he concluded . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's rather a long way , though . |
| 6 | ‘ London 's rather a long way . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's rather a long story . |
| 8 | I have n't actually got the , got page , it 's rather a long case |
| 9 | It 's rather a long time is n't it ? |
| 10 | Since 1986 's ‘ It 's Only A Long Way Across ’ , his songs have come wrapped in an electric blanket which has been soaked in the bog-holes of Ireland and then dry cleaned in the side alleys of Greenwich Village . |
| 11 | I think I shall have to get is a decent FM radio , I use a radio more than a tape actually in the car , but mine 's only a long medium wave job . |
| 12 | I have an idea that there 's this wonderful , amazing painting and everyone 'll love it and I did it , but it 's down a long tunnel somewhere . |
| 13 | In the case of d ) , this is perhaps a long term strategy which will yield a slow but , hopefully , steady trickle . |
| 14 | In the case of d ) , this is perhaps a long term strategy which will yield a slow but , hopefully , steady trickle . |
| 15 | Such connections are occasionally recognised in orthodox medicine where there is not a long time delay between one complaint developing and the next , though the significance of the link between diseases is frequently missed . |
| 16 | Gradually , countries are coming to their senses and realising that non-stop exploitation of rainforest resources is not a long term answer to poverty . |
| 17 | Two weeks is not a long time especially as social workers have many competing claims on their time . |
| 18 | The journey is not a long one , a few centimetres only , and the babies quickly find a teat . |
| 19 | You see , because everybody everybody from Mexico , right down to the er to the tip of South America , for example , er speak one dialect or another of er of er of of of of Spain , of the Spanish language , and large areas of er of er the Indes you see , er and Italian is not a long way from it , you see , so er er er it it on the surface it may seem to have have been difficult , but the er you know there we we we did get by . |
| 20 | Three weeks is not a long time to debate a Bill , but the number of hours that we can devote to the Bill during that period will be perfectly adequate . |
| 21 | It is not a long — term strategy upon which Europe can depend . |
| 22 | Your son has suffered a terrible loss — six months is not a long period of time to get over such a trauma . |
| 23 | There is already a long list of great British industries — from shipbuilding to motorcycles — which have slid into terminal decline . |
| 24 | ‘ But it 's not love , it 's just a long series of tactics . ’ |
| 25 | it 's just a long drive over there |
| 26 | It 's not a long course , but it will examine every aspect of technique with every club in the bag . |
| 27 | It 's not a long story . |
| 28 | That 's not a long hop , that 's a googly . |
| 29 | It 's not a , it 's not a long journey either from Queensbury to Morecambe is it ? |
| 30 | It is worth noting that there is a delay between diagnosis and reporting of cases of AIDS and that there is usually a long interval between infection with HIV and the development of AIDS , so the published statistics do not accurately reflect the spread of HIV infection . |