Example sentences of "[be] [prep] a long while " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to be , but I have n't been for a long while I used to we ca n't say that I was there last year but |
| 2 | Today , closer to Clapton ( geographically ) than he 's been in a long while , Anthony Newley is relishing the chance to prove he 's still up to a tough dramatic performance eight shows a week and , to follow , he has plans for a musicalised Richard III . |
| 3 | Alas for them , Faber was not in Santa 's sack this year , and is unlikely to be for a long while . |
| 4 | B : oh they were on a long while I think before that + |
| 5 | The British White , largely on the basis of its coat pattern , was for a long while considered to be merely a polled variety of the White Park and , of course , there was some interbreeding . |
| 6 | His great courage at the time eventually earned him the Military Cross , but the harrowing experience was for a long while foremost in his mind and symbolized by the walk back to his commanding officer over a mass of dead German and British soldiers in which his feet scarcely touched the ground . |