Example sentences of "[adv] a very long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there , the food passes to the gut — Koi do not have a stomach as such , only a very long intestine . |
| 2 | This is , however , usually a very long process ; and while it can be accelerated by shifting and deflation , it is in fact better to depopulate A below the diagonal , as far as possible , as an initial step . |
| 3 | Under the present director , Geoffrey Morgan , a soft-spoken Welshman whose main outside interest is silkworms , the list of names has moved away from the Reform Club and further out into Middle England , although it is still a very long way short of representing a cross-section of the population . |
| 4 | It was a lot bigger now and yet , and yet … still a very long way off . |
| 5 | But he was still a very long way from knowing enough to judge the value of what each of them had chosen , or would choose to tell him , and what they would , for differing reasons , see fit to suppress . |
| 6 | As a company and as individuals , we are still a very long way from the goals set at the outset of TOP in February 1992 and much remains to be done . |
| 7 | And here there is still a very long way to go . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's been dead a very long time , has n't she ? ’ |
| 9 | We 're getting not just somewhere a very long way away , |
| 10 | It 's taken us both a very long time but I feel stronger and emotionally much more stable now . |
| 11 | But it is now a very long time since I was there . ’ |
| 12 | This water had been there a very long time , and smelled no better than it should . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There was therefore a very long period during which the need for a god was having its effect on the developing mind of man , but during which no god worship as now understood was practised . |