Example sentences of "[pers pn] took a [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took a very long and deep breath . |
| 2 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |
| 3 | He took a very long time over it and in the end just lipped the hole . |
| 4 | He took a terribly long time to clean his hands . |
| 5 | ‘ It took a very long time to reconcile myself with my father . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's easy to edit now electronically , but in those days , where editing was done by looking down a microscope for a metal ink pulse , cutting the tape physically with a guillotine and then joining edges together with sticky tape , it took a very long time and could be very wasteful . ’ |