Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [vb pp] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 While the Silures and their allies had fought a long and successful guerrilla-type campaign , they did not possess the strength or ability to stop a large Roman force from advancing into their territory , nor had they command of the sea .
2 You know , you 'd think things had changed a long time ago but erm I remember having Chrissy in that yard when he was a baby in his pushchair where and there was the coalman 's horse and erm
3 That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 .
4 It was agreed this was not easy to do and it illustrated that deciding whether pupils had attained a long list of criteria would be a very considerable task .
5 Both men had fought a long and isolated battle against the move from London .
6 He had quite liked the thought of being fit and athletic some time in the future , although the signs had taken a long time coming .
7 It was a day that twenty one soldiers had waited a long time to see .
8 The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " .
9 Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 .
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