Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know I 've been a long time on this but I 'll I think it 's nearly there . |
| 2 | Well we went off and got off at Peel which was the other with the all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 3 | He said it 's happened before and he advised her to go to the police and er so he , he said er when and the police st told her , when you come back we 'll have all this typed out i and she came back all with a flask all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time , because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 4 | Although I have been a long time supporter . |
| 5 | Even the products division which has been a long time drag on profitability improved its performance , and was well up too . |
| 6 | You 've been a long time ! |
| 7 | Since then there has been a long decline . |
| 8 | Recently there has been a long ambulance drivers ' strike . |
| 9 | There has been a long debate as to whether Severn Mill was operated as a tide mill , the general opinion now seeming to favour this idea . |
| 10 | There has been a long tradition of professional marketing activities by a wide spectrum of non-profit making organisations including political parties , the Health Education Council with its anti-smoking campaign , the Right to Read programme , Oxfam , Christian Aid and the Salvation Army . |
| 11 | There has been a long , ongoing battle between alternative medical practice and orthodox medicine — with the establishment maintaining the upper hand . |
| 12 | Most of this is in the northwest where there has been a long history of land-use , involving both degradation and successful reclamation . |
| 13 | There has been a long resistance to accepting that , in spite of the logical stringency with which laws in science are formulated , interrelated and tested , their origin has never ceased to be the same . |
| 14 | There has been a long and fruitful interplay between the two branches : Pure Mathematics develops methods used in Applied Mathematics ; Applied Mathematics has in turn raised problems which have ultimately led to the creation of whole areas of Pure Mathematics . |
| 15 | There has been a long and rather pointless debate on this question . |
| 16 | Mr Foster said : ‘ There has been a long period of uncertainty which always causes problems . |
| 17 | Although there had been a long established tradition of community and private forestry schemes , it was not until the launching of the Saemol Undong ( or New Community Movement ) in 1970 that it was possible to conceive of a nation-wide forestry policy and programme . |
| 18 | There had been a long struggle . |
| 19 | There had been a long time when he had been surrounded by wire and bars . |
| 20 | However , there had been a long and consistent course of dealing which was adhered to on this occasion . |
| 21 | There had been a long list of such casualties in Libby 's life , this was just another . |
| 22 | She did not know what sort of oddness to imagine , but they had been a long time and there had been peculiar noises . |
| 23 | It has been a long time since the women 's game has been so open ; hopefully it will continue . |
| 24 | It has been a long day , but there are still a couple of hours to run , and this is Berlin , where anything can happen . |
| 25 | Everyone is contemplating an early night — it has been a long day , one of the busiest for a while . |
| 26 | I thought I would go home when I left but it has been a long time . |
| 27 | It has been a long time . |
| 28 | It has been a long and widely held assumption that crime is very much more frequent among those of low social status . |
| 29 | This is a very beautiful music , serene , noble , discreet , poignant , composed , grief-stricken , understated , sublime — it has been a long time since I discovered anything quite so touching . |
| 30 | It has been a long and winding road for the much-travelled Quinn to achieve fully-fledged Premier League status , even though his career record is better than a goal every two games . |