Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [vb past] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 But then , all this business happened a long time ago .
2 He called in his full executive to meet us and I 'm sure at the end of the day that this meeting went a long way to the tour going ahead instead of being cancelled ’ .
3 Regaining this knowledge involved a long and hazardous series of amphibious raids in which the clandestine activities of SOE and the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ) , as well as the commandos , became involved .
4 The sweet taste of this victory lingered a long time on the lips of Dublin dykes .
5 Her later research in this area involved a long study of the complex genetic interactions in Matthiola incana , on which she published twenty-two papers .
6 The same research also shows , however , that the ‘ class ’ basis of support for the parties is now weakening significantly , and that even at its peak this phenomenon fell a long way short of the Marxist conception of political ‘ class consciousness ’ .
7 That notion had a long history , and had by no means been deserted by post-classical law .
8 His own voice sounded a long way away , and muffled .
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