Example sentences of "[adv] have a [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yet in the long run — and we have already had a pretty long run — the results are potentially devastating . ’ |
| 2 | Version 6.0 of Pick will not have a very long life , however — by the summer , versions 6.1 will be in beta test . |
| 3 | Joint Planning , it seems to me , still has a very long way to go . |
| 4 | I think we still have a very long way to go erm but |
| 5 | It also has an extremely long shelf-life and loses none of its potency even when turning from its original pale straw colour to the colour of strong tea after a year or more . |
| 6 | Partnership may turn out to have a relatively long life but are not formed on that expectation . |
| 7 | Such horses often have a very long coat of hair , a ‘ malnutrition coat ’ , which the horse grows against cold , as it does not have the normal layer of fat under its skin to protect it . |
| 8 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 9 | Does n't have a very long |
| 10 | You did n't have a very long sleep did you ? |