Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The collapse continued until many thousands of tons of rock were blocking a long section of the underground roadway . |
| 2 | He did not wait for the servants to open the doors , but just pushed through into the entrance hall , and then into the great ballroom where a score of painters and upholsterers were finishing a long night 's work during which they had transformed the ballroom into a silk-hung fantasy . |
| 3 | Jehana was wearing a long gown of cream-coloured cloth . |
| 4 | ‘ When I step back from it all , I see tennis was invented a long time ago . |
| 5 | Erm it 's , it 's , negative numbers are n't a natural thing , fractions are actually easier and that was what happened in the history of mathematics , fractions were developed a long long time before negative numbers , the old Greeks used to play about with fractions quite a lot . |
| 6 | The sky was getting darker and the silhouette of the Chateau was casting a long shadow of gloom over the scene . |
| 7 | ( Later we learn that her body was carried a long distance on someone 's back , for there are only a few places in Tibet where sky burials are performed . ) |
| 8 | ‘ The entire community was resettled a long time ago . |
| 9 | The comments above by Sisam ( 1915 ) and Hall ( 1920 ) arise directly from Skeats 's views , and , although these comments were made a long time ago , it would be a mistake to think that the Anglo-Norman argument has now been abandoned . |
| 10 | 2.25:GOLD CUP hero Cool Ground was beaten a long way behind Tipping Tim at Wetherby three weeks ago , and is best watched for the time being . |
| 11 | Mary was carrying a long white veil and dress over her arm . |
| 12 | Iain Christie , chairman of the processing group , said : ‘ This promotion was arranged a long time ago , before this import situation surfaced . |
| 13 | Woolley was making a long telephone call . |
| 14 | These points were made a long time ago by Kahn-Freund in ( 1940–1 ) 4 MLR 221 , but have never been satisfactorily answered . |
| 15 | Sapt was carrying a long rope and I had a short , thick stick and a long knife . |
| 16 | The steep pillar initially intended was being examined by Vic and Steve , while the others were trying a longer more circuitous route which looked technically easier . |
| 17 | The switched-off siren was taking a long time to die . |
| 18 | Finding this rare breed was to prove a long , uphill struggle . |
| 19 | The idea of having a rapper and using a James Brown melody line as your hook was done a long , long time ago — by us ! |
| 20 | Brown Owl was gone a long time , but at last she came back , and leaning on her arm and limping was the pilot of the plane . |
| 21 | Finally , the question of national guilt and its expiation was to have a long history in relation to abolition and emancipation involving a definition of national interest as meeting national duty by observing the religious conception of proper order in the world . |
| 22 | The estate was sold a long time ago to the Dukes of Devonshire and was tenanted at one time by the Reverend Thomas Fosbroke , the celebrated antiquary . |
| 23 | For to believe in abstract principles of justice was to face a long series of disillusionments in everyday life , as the Goliardic poems , written by scholars trained in the new learning , amply demonstrated : |