Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His father 's been dead a long time and he has-had — two brothers . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I only took a quick look , he 'd been dead a long time , it was n't nice , and yet — it looked like Uncle Mosse . ’ |
| 3 | We 've been together a long time and people in the band like Paul and Mark and Gaz have a few things to prove themselves . |
| 4 | " We 've been together a long time Her voice went thick and inarticulate . |
| 5 | Many thousands of earthquakes can be recorded along the ridges in any one year and a few of these are quite severe , but since they are generally a long way from anywhere , they do n't hit the headlines . |
| 6 | And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June . |
| 7 | You 've been away a long time have n't you ? |
| 8 | After an early phase of rapid growth initiated by enterprising , indigenous farmers and leading to an increasingly capitalist social structure , by 1939 the Ghanaian cocoa industry had entered what has been generally a long decline accompanied by reduced employment of wage-labour . |
| 9 | Everything large or furry has been shot and eaten or skinned , or if it has n't been , it runs away while you 're still a long way off , which makes it rather difficult to film . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're still a long way from Herr Goodenache . ’ |
| 11 | So in a way I welcome the fact that these figures bear a little more relationship to the real situation er than last year 's did , but we 're still a long way short of knowing exactly what 's going on . |
| 12 | Efficiency plateaux are still a long way from becoming a feature of Southern energy economics . |
| 13 | While such machines are still a long way from being able to beat the American champion ( there are about 700 Masters in the US ) , it is clear that the period from 1977 to the present has seen a degree and pace of progress in machine chess that is very different in kind from what went on between 1957 and 1976 . |
| 14 | We are still a long way from moving from ‘ the polluted pay ’ to ‘ the polluters pay ’ principle . |
| 15 | In man this is very clear , for although a child may be sexually mature and fully grown quite early on in his or her teens , they are still a long way from any degree of emotional maturity . |
| 16 | However , before getting too carried away and concluding that detailed activity-based accounting may soon be outdated , and replaced by more simple machine-time analyses , it must be remembered that the extremes of CIM are still a long way off for most industries . |
| 17 | But commercial free-range flocks are also a long way short of welfare heaven . |
| 18 | The pope did not send him a pallium until June 634 and , given the long-standing papal concern with the well-being of the church of Canterbury , a three-year interval between Honorius ' appointment and the sending of a pallium would seem to be rather a long time . |
| 19 | It will , I suspect , be rather a long time before historians adopt SGML-authoring software as their own . |
| 20 | And maybe , she thought , if I 'm lucky he 'll be away a long time and I 'll meet an interesting man . |
| 21 | Guido elaborated , ‘ I 'm afraid I 'm still a long way from forgiving your brother for his irresponsible behaviour . ’ |
| 22 | In fact , if the starlings are all in a circle ( perhaps the lawn has a fairy ring which the worms find congenial ) , then the centre of the flock will be quite a long way from any of the birds . |
| 23 | Erm , a bit on the recommendations one they 're seeking approval er that erm the er tenders from are left from March nineteen ninety four to March nineteen ninety eight which seems to me to be quite a long time to let that go if we 're all a little bit concerned about what 's going on . |
| 24 | Can I make a suggestion rather than re-numbering all those , its going to be quite a long job , is that from what I can see at the moment there is no reason why that ca n't be added on as a last sentence to nine anyway , cause nine says you records the outcome of the enquiry , . |
| 25 | so erm investing into industry which I do n't know much about , and I , I am suspicious that invest into industry anyway erm so it 's gon na have , to work it 'll have to be quite a long term policy , well I imagine it would n't be a short-term policy . |
| 26 | Now that 's going to be quite a long term process is n't it ? |
| 27 | ‘ You 've been here a long while , have n't you , Raech ? |
| 28 | ‘ I been here a long time . |
| 29 | I have been here a long time . |
| 30 | She 's been here a long time , of course , from Father Collins 's days . |