Example sentences of "[was/were] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That last one were a long time before your time , Tom . |
| 2 | These whirlwind developments were a long time in the planning but the results came with staggering speed and remarkable good nature and co-operation which finally sees the rugby world totally united once again but with a new combined force lurking below the equator . |
| 3 | ‘ You were a long time coming to bed . ’ |
| 4 | If a week is a long time in politics , two days were a long time in the right hon. and learned Gentleman 's life last week . |
| 5 | Swindon 's glory days in the FA Cup were a long time ago while Cambridge have been to the quarter finals two years running . |
| 6 | So when we say we want the laws of physics perhaps to stay constant in time , when we observe these objects a long way away we 're observing the laws of physics as they were a long time ago . |
| 7 | well that were a long time ago , they 've got some from down here , Edinburgh Road , you got one from Edinburgh Road |
| 8 | It was a long time since she had last seen Michael : it was seven months , two weeks and three days , four if she counted today . |
| 9 | It was a long time ago . |
| 10 | But the reason we , unlike the Americans , have no telephones on planes is largely because a consensus on frequencies was a long time coming . |
| 11 | We called the police and ambulance but it was a long time before the police arrived . |
| 12 | And Peter Brook 's powerful adaptation of William Golding 's Lord of the Flies was a long time on the shelf before securing a release in 1963 . |
| 13 | Britain was a long time recovering after 1945 . |
| 14 | Thirty years was a long time to stay with one company . |
| 15 | He had keen eyes and quick hands , so it was a long time before he got caught . |
| 16 | The bus was a long time coming and Gloria would n't play anything , just stood there staring at nothing until finally she said , ‘ Now I ai n't got him no more . ’ |
| 17 | It was a long time ago and he was very small , he said , he could barely recall it . |
| 18 | It was a long time before we recovered from the loss , and I vowed never to have another dog because we could never replace Sorrel . |
| 19 | It was a long time before his sobs subsided , and by then other , less ugly sounds were coming from the room downstairs . |
| 20 | It was a long time before they subsided sufficiently for him to relax his muscles and lie still in the rough familiar comfort of tangled blankets . |
| 21 | It was a long time since he 'd organised anything like a fête . |
| 22 | It was a long time . |
| 23 | Christmas was a long time away and it would mount up . |
| 24 | It was a long time since they 'd done anything together . |
| 25 | It was a long time since he had seen Mr Whistle . |
| 26 | But that was a long time ago . |
| 27 | Several workers suggested that there must be a tissue phase , in which the Plasmodium went to ground , but it was a long time before objects , evidently forms of the parasite , were recognized in microscopic sections of the spleen and liver of infected domestic fowl , monkeys and finally man . |
| 28 | ‘ It was a long time ago … ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It was a long time ago , James , a long time ago . |
| 30 | But that was a long time ago , before the war . |