Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing is moulded under your eyes , and a recent book which has been very popular in the university Gödel Esher Bach which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas , has in its preface got quite a long article on how the author actually organised all of the processes , right through to the final printing of that book , and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text , and it has obviously been very stimulating for him . |
| 2 | Fergus laughed rather a long time at this , and said tersely , ‘ I should . ’ |
| 3 | Such distinctions mattered more in Russia or the Dual Monarchy , where the capitalist and professional classes had still a long way to go before winning social acceptance by the old nobility . |
| 4 | Then Davey moved quite a long way away for his work and she hardly saw him . |
| 5 | Because if it had been painted , and the paint took quite a long time to dry and er if there was a speck of dust it remained there forever . |