Example sentences of "[noun] had [been] [adv] long " in BNC.
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1 | Sydney Samuelson , the British Film Commissioner , whose father opened a cinema in Southport in 1910 , said his association with the industry had been so long that he remembered receiving a letter signed Wil Napoleon asking how to become an extra . |
2 | Six months had been too long and she wanted to be home . |
3 | Poetry had been too long and too harshly divided from prose . ’ |
4 | It was early evening and the day had been too long . |
5 | The day had been very long and packed to bursting . |