Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [art] long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proteins have little sequence identity and obviously diverged a long time ago . |
| 2 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
| 3 | However , the seeds had been sown in my mind — they just took a long time to grow ! |
| 4 | Victims frequently took a long time to die , often very unpleasantly . |
| 5 | The two drawbacks were that it initially took a long time to get into , and it was hot — the first problem was solved , the second not . |
| 6 | I do n't know when this story started but it certainly happened a long time ago . |
| 7 | He was certainly in Italy before Narses died in 574 , and he subsequently spent a long time in Constantinople . |