Example sentences of "[be] a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Home Secretary was n't persuaded then and there has n't been a particularly long period of time since , so it is not likely that there will be any review . ’ |
| 2 | It had been a very long night to pass on a tiny piece of sandwich . |
| 3 | I myself would seemingly represent the environmental lobby , but there have been others , many ex-members of Harwell , who have been campaigning for a long time now , many years , to get these reactors shut down , and it has just been a very long slog , and eventually the truth has had to come to light to shut these reactors down . |
| 4 | In spite of the fact that there has been a very long tradition of work on rural land use , including the invaluable land use survey of the 1930s ( Stamp , 1962 ) , and its revival in the second survey of the 1960s and 1970s * ( Coleman et al , 1974 ) and much other detailed work from other sources ( Hart , 1980 ; Coppock , 1960a ; Best , 1981 ) as shown in Table 8. 1 , there is still a desperate need ( Hall , 1 974 , 414 ) for a ‘ national Domesday book for land use , preferably updated every 10 years at the time of the population census ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's been a very long day , and I still have to finish unpacking , ’ she prevaricated . |
| 6 | ‘ I am very sorry , ’ he said , ‘ but you must understand it has been a very long time … |
| 7 | Anyway , it had been a very long time ago , goodness gracious , it had been at least six years . |
| 8 | It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years . |
| 9 | And that 's been a very long process . |
| 10 | The victory did not , however , mean the immediate defeat of England ; that was to be a rather longer process . |
| 11 | Well as you know I think the committee looked at this erm in nineteen ninety one and er I think it is fairly true to say that by the time it was taken out of service blood hound did not represent a very high level of capability erm and the gap , there is a gap obviously between blood hound it 'll it 'll now be a rather longer gap between that and any A M S A M replacement , er but blood hound itself was judged to be frankly not worth having . |
| 12 | ‘ No , really — think about the last time you went a day without wearing make-up and I bet it would be a frighteningly long time ago . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ An announcement to the audience — there will be a slightly longer interval and Herr Gesner , due to an indisposition , will not be able to continue his performance . |
| 14 | This would ensure directionality , but it would still leave the problem of getting the message from one end of the signalling cell to the other over what would now be a relatively long distance . |
| 15 | The result can be a very long document in a complicated coding scheme , but it forms a powerful description of design information without any compromise made in accuracy . |
| 16 | ‘ Modern economics , as well as the geography of the whole of Ireland means that ultimately — and ultimately can be a very long way away — our Labour Party policy on reunification is the one that will be endorsed . |
| 17 | Further difficulties arise because it is by no means clear what objects the signs are intended to represent , but even if it were , decipherment would still be a very long way off . |
| 18 | It will be a very long time before the actual causes of war are entirely removed , if ever , but a truly human religion would change the historic misuse of long established religions , and serve as a counter to war , not provide justification for it . |
| 19 | Now that he was n't looming over her , she felt more composed , and it would be a very long time before she ever took a stranger on trust again . |
| 20 | I d I know that , there 's that phrase you know , we will never see his like again , I think we probably will , but it will be a very long time , and I can not tell you the infinite feeling of sadness erm , that I felt when I heard of his passing . |
| 21 | It was going to be a very long car chase . |
| 22 | It is likely to be a very long investigation . ’ |
| 23 | The Alpine snows closed over his militant steps , and the sinners he had excommunicated for one reason or another turned their thoughts from irregular union or simony , if they had ever been on them , and peered into the mists of what promised to be a very long vacancy . |
| 24 | We had certainly made some fully justified savings in Housing Benefit but these were a very long way from the £2 billion ambitions of the Treasury . |
| 25 | there have n't been many ice hockey sims on the 64 — the only two I can recall ( Powerplay Hockey and Superstar Ice Hockey ) were a very long time ago . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's a jolly long walk , if you do n't mind my saying so , ’ Harvey remarked and smiled in a twisted way . |
| 27 | ‘ Negotiating with customers took time too ; it 's a very long haul in the Eastern European market , ’ comments Pomfret . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's a very long story . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's a very long way , dear , and bound to be boggy at this time of year . |
| 30 | Most people thinks that 's a very long way off , but in the case of something like health then erm we certainly agree health is good for a very long way . |