Example sentences of "[is] [adv] a very long " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a herb border to a complete herb garden is not a very long step , and once the initial interest has been started with the planting of single plants here and there in the garden , it is not long before friends are giving one new species , other varieties are discovered at garden centres , and catalogues are found to list even more . |
| 2 | This is not a very long list of " media offences " . |
| 3 | It 's not a very long journey it 's , it 's . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And here there is still a very long way to go . |
| 6 | But it is now a very long time since I was there . ’ |
| 7 | This is very unfortunate , but it is n't a very long journey . |
| 8 | 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 . |