Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] a [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
| 2 | It was a strenuously long day for the 26-year-old psychiatrist 's daughter from Kilkenny , who had survived a two-down-with-six-to-play crisis before lunch to beat Ulster 's gallant little Michelle McGreevy on the 17th . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , I think Freud 's view was that er the erm , if it was a really long complicated dream , you were recalling a previous fantasy rather than er necessarily creating from scratch because of this particular stimulus . |
| 4 | It was a very long journey right across the Atlas mountains and down to the edge of the desert . |
| 5 | As always , it was a very long day to get through . |
| 6 | It was a very long year . |
| 7 | And then , with an abrupt gesture , ‘ But it was a very long time ago , and I do not know the details , for I was never told . |
| 8 | It was a very long summer . |
| 9 | It was a very long day . |
| 10 | Oh it , it was n't there seemed to be a long time you know before they turned one out to make , because it was a very long process rebuilding an aircraft , es especially as the situation was at Walsall . |
| 11 | It was a terribly long journey , even though they broke it in Florida . |
| 12 | It was a horribly long way from the ground . |