Example sentences of "[be] [adj] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been asleep a long time . ’ |
| 2 | Or perhaps it had been clear a long time before that . |
| 3 | ‘ I have been patient a long time , nonya . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He 'd been ill a long time . |
| 5 | That is , in addition to the tendency to feel tired because we have been awake a long time , there is some rhythmic change that decreases our fatigue at some times and increases it at others . |
| 6 | I must have been unconscious a long time . |
| 7 | Worse , he told her that naturally he never used the lifts because if one were faulty he could be stuck a long time with no one to free him . |
| 8 | Jackets that had been second-hand a long time ago , trousers the same . |
| 9 | We are talking of them being competitive a long way down the road . ’ |
| 10 | I was awake a long time that night . |
| 11 | The repossession problem was apparent a long time before the politicians decided it was an issue — the figure of 80,000 , which is equivalent to a town the size of Coventry , referred to homes that HAD already been repossessed . |