Example sentences of "[verb] [art] very long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Close beside Xi is the huge eclipsing binary VV Cephei , which has the very long period of 7430 days ; the next eclipse is not due until 1996 , when the magnitude will drop from its usual 4.9 to about 5.2 .
2 However desirable this might be , in a highly complex and differentiated society such as ours this undertaking would need a very long time given our present methods , resources and interests .
3 To leap from this standpoint to the assumption that we have an everlasting soul is to leap a very long way — probably too far .
4 He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat !
5 Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way .
6 He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories .
7 She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent .
8 → When you think of Fender 's seeming unwillingness to bring the reissues of the Indie-cred Jaguar into this country , Jim , I think we 'll probably wait a very long time before a Bass VI emanates from anywhere other than the Fender Custom Shop — a facility available to the wad-carrying fanatic .
9 ‘ You 'll wait a very long time to do that , ’ he gritted .
10 Still , Germany has no very long history as a unitary state ( less than a century ) and has had three capitals since 1918 — Weimar , Berlin and Bonn .
11 Joint Planning , it seems to me , still has a very long way to go .
12 However , the volume of research varies considerably from one polytechnic to another and , in general , it has a very long way to go before it begins to approach that generated within universities .
13 Direct perception by psychics of energy manifestations in the landscape has a very long history .
14 Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control .
15 The radioactive potassium has a very long half-life ( 1250 million years ) so that the amount lost is extremely small relative to the total amount of potassium present and can not be measured .
16 sorry , erm this budget has a very long gestation period er I 'm on version twelve I think at the last count and I hope there is n't gon na be a version thirteen .
17 It has a very long neck like a duck , and the front of the body sometimes has a faint purple tinge .
18 ‘ This is something I should 'ave done a very long time ago .
19 And that , in 1957 , seemed a very long way off .
20 The two miles to Casterbridge seemed a very long way to the woman , who was tired and ill .
21 In some ways those days when she had lived in Paula 's shadow seemed a very long time ago , in others they might have been just yesterday .
22 It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost .
23 It seemed a very long time before he came back .
24 I waited , cold and tired , in his room for what seemed a very long time .
25 She talked to me for what seemed a very long time .
26 We stood there , all four of us , in silence for what seemed a very long time .
27 Thus it would seem that the ‘ dawn of civilisation ’ , so often quoted in a context suggesting that it represents a fairly finite occurrence taking a relatively short space of time , did , in all probability cover a very long time indeed , perhaps many thousands of years .
28 backing up , when I er , at , at the appeal , the medical centre made a very long presentation over the proximity , the closeness to their erm , surgery and they argued about the height of buildings , now it got passed as sheltered united , er , which means elderly and quiet occupancy .
29 Cecil recalls that one of the bases was Great Ashfield and other Woodbridge , one of the three emergency strips located on the east coast , Cecil particularly recalling the very long runway there .
30 Leasing obviously still has its dedicated followers , but like many other sectors the boom years of the mid-1980s now look a very long way away .
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