Example sentences of "[conj] [art] very long time " in BNC.

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1 Choose the right Koi and it could be an investment for life — choose the wrong one and you could be a very short — or a very long time regretting your mistake .
2 Phosphate is the least problem and , perhaps because of the almost profligate use of bone meal and the very long time it takes for the phosphate to be released by bacterial decomposition , is very seldom indeed the cause for worry .
3 ‘ Once or twice , but a very long time ago , ’ Andrew said .
4 But here in Chichester Chairman , it 's er a pretty serious situation where you 've got a a small river causing tremendous volumes of water er levels of which I think have never been experienced with anybody er going through a very small city built in eighteen hundreds I do n't know what time and date you know , but a very long time ago .
5 After a very long time the young man had not reappeared .
6 After a very long time Yussuf appeared .
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