Example sentences of "[adv] a very long time " in BNC.

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1 ‘ She 's been dead a very long time , has n't she ? ’
2 It 's taken us both a very long time but I feel stronger and emotionally much more stable now .
3 But it is now a very long time since I was there . ’
4 This water had been there a very long time , and smelled no better than it should .
5 It 's been there a very long time , cos that man was old who asked me , you , you know it was an old man he said that , and I was quite young , he said er , er is that cross still there in , in Chichester , I said yes , it 's still there .
6 Most of the company wives do n't see their husbands for about sixty five per cent of the year , which is actually a very long time when you 're living in these sort of conditions .
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