Example sentences of "[noun] be [art] long time " in BNC.
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| 31 | After five days it came with the speed of a poltergeist hurling a vase : Robson is the long time presenter of the Metro Radio programme Night Owls , ghosts strut their stuff at night , the two make a neat marketing ploy . |
| 32 | Twenty nine year service is a long time . |
| 33 | Nonetheless , two microseconds is a long time compared with many things that happen in and around the atomic nucleus , and the muon has a chance to initiate several fusions before it dies . |
| 34 | A week is a long time in politics , said Harold Wilson . |
| 35 | A week is a long time in football , seven days in fact , but somehow a reversal of February 's 11–0 defeat at the hands of today 's opponents would prove that Lazarus does n't have the last word in comebacks , and we are still a team to be reckoned with . |
| 36 | If a week is a long time in politics , two days were a long time in the right hon. and learned Gentleman 's life last week . |
| 37 | The problem is that most tenant 's covenants appear at the outset to be quite reasonable and innocuous , but if a week is a long time in politics then 25 years is a lifetime in property during which circumstances can and will change with a result that a previously innocent-looking covenant could become highly restrictive and troublesome . |
| 38 | A WEEK is a long time in football , is n't it ? |
| 39 | And a month was a long time … |
| 40 | A month was a long time . |
| 41 | These whirlwind developments were a long time in the planning but the results came with staggering speed and remarkable good nature and co-operation which finally sees the rugby world totally united once again but with a new combined force lurking below the equator . |
| 42 | Britain was a long time recovering after 1945 . |
| 43 | And September was a long time away . |
| 44 | Their affair was a long time ago and has nothing to do with now . |
| 45 | Wise men are a long time in the ship |
| 46 | " The police are a long time getting here , " he said . |
| 47 | Swindon 's glory days in the FA Cup were a long time ago while Cambridge have been to the quarter finals two years running . |
| 48 | the T V adverts thirty seconds is a long time |
| 49 | 3476 , great , put your handset down , alright , you trundle there , get your coffee , get your , and erm , okay , we 've got 75 seconds , we can either let it mature , or we can access , well I suggest we access , because 75 seconds is a long time . |
| 50 | But the end was a long time coming . |
| 51 | The bus was a long time coming and Gloria would n't play anything , just stood there staring at nothing until finally she said , ‘ Now I ai n't got him no more . ’ |
| 52 | Because 24 hours is a long time for spectators to stand and watch a race , many attractions were added to the occasion to provide a gala atmosphere , including the famous fun fair . |
| 53 | Eight hours is a long time to wait to play three games , ’ said Sanchez , last year 's runner-up to Monica Seles . |
| 54 | AN hour is a long time in politics . |
| 55 | The human span of attention is limited ; for most people an hour is a long time for concentrated thought on one topic . |
| 56 | You know , I was on the phone to a customer for fifteen to twenty minutes because they 'd had a bad experience and I was actually making an appointment for Roy to go in and that twenty minutes is a long time , and I think really if anything , it 's just brought to me really , , how little time sometimes , it 's not always the case , it does vary , that , depending on the incoming calls , depending if you 've got got through the emerging paperwork for whatever reason , how little quality time perhaps you do actually spend on the phone , making outgoing calls to sell . |
| 57 | It all , just all depends and a year 's a long time is n't it ? |
| 58 | Nora 's a long time . ’ |
| 59 | Mrs Freda Bastianelli , the mother of four-month-old twin boys , who has a house on the shoreline , complained that another year was a long time to wait for a possible cure . |
| 60 | But the reason we , unlike the Americans , have no telephones on planes is largely because a consensus on frequencies was a long time coming . |