Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] time ago " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	It was for a party in one of the upstairs rooms , but it had been a long time ago .
2	That had been a long time ago .
3	But that had been a long time ago .
4	It had been a long time ago and the jungle had reclaimed its own .
5	It must have been a long time ago .
6	Must be a long time ago love is n't it since we had best butter .
7	Swindon 's glory days in the FA Cup were a long time ago while Cambridge have been to the quarter finals two years running .
8	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 .
9	well that were a long time ago , they 've got some from down here , Edinburgh Road , you got one from Edinburgh Road
10	That 's a long time ago .
11	Some people think I 'm running on ; but that 's a long time ago .
12	It 's a long time ago , though .
13	" It 's a long time ago , Mr Feather . "
14	That 's a long time ago is n't it .
15	And it 's a long time ago — ’
16	So that 's a long time ago , seventeen twenty .
17	That 's a long time ago .
18	I know it 's a long time ago
19	That 's a long time ago .
20	Ah , well , that 's a long time ago when there was .
21	Yeah it 's nineteen fifty when I left , you know , it 's a long time ago !
22	That 's a long time ago because se the roads have been tarmacked for goodness knows how long now !
23	That 's a long time ago is n't it ?
24	It 's a long time ago but you know the trial 's only just finished .
25	It 's a long time ago since I did any chemistry .
26	It is a long time ago .
27	It is a long time ago and what matters now is the future .
28	It is a long time ago but still worth a story in some paper if Ana 's problem can be tagged on to it . ’
29	Yeah , t is a long time ago I know
30	It was a long time ago .

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