Example sentences of "[adv] a very long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experts now solve the problem by placing them in a separate order which , they believe , branched off a very long time ago and did not lead to more advanced forms . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's been dead a very long time , has n't she ? ’ |
| 3 | It 's taken us both a very long time but I feel stronger and emotionally much more stable now . |
| 4 | To invest such works a besieging army would have to be at least 700,000 strong , and London would be able to hold out a very long time , as the example of Paris showed ; the Prussian siege there lasted five months , and had things gone a little differently Paris might have been relieved . |
| 5 | But it is now a very long time since I was there . ’ |
| 6 | This water had been there a very long time , and smelled no better than it should . |
| 7 | It 's been there a very long time , cos that man was old who asked me , you , you know it was an old man he said that , and I was quite young , he said er , er is that cross still there in , in Chichester , I said yes , it 's still there . |
| 8 | Most of the company wives do n't see their husbands for about sixty five per cent of the year , which is actually a very long time when you 're living in these sort of conditions . |