Example sentences of "[is] a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's a jolly long walk , if you do n't mind my saying so , ’ Harvey remarked and smiled in a twisted way . |
| 2 | ‘ Negotiating with customers took time too ; it 's a very long haul in the Eastern European market , ’ comments Pomfret . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a very long story . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a very long way , dear , and bound to be boggy at this time of year . |
| 5 | Most people thinks that 's a very long way off , but in the case of something like health then erm we certainly agree health is good for a very long way . |
| 6 | It 's , it 's a very long way to cycle , is it er , have you done anything like before Chris ? |
| 7 | It 's a very long struggle for decent wages erm recognition at work , the same kind of jobs that men have erm it 's interesting the results of the Guardian survey yesterday , ten thousand replies they had , and there were a tiny percentage of women that earned over thirty thousand , so you could see that many , many of the job tops are still in the hands of men . |
| 8 | Well there was just , it 's not , surprising it 's a very long day , when you initially said I allow the period of the plaintiff by mistake you said defendant , just for the record |
| 9 | So imagine you were writing Jayne here J now it 's a very long name , Jayne and you have to put the title on there too , so I could n't put it all in capital letters on this occasion could I ? |
| 10 | Erm , it 's a very long term thing , and John 's been working through the tenants ' action group on it so I personally do n't know what , what the kind of take up is on that , er |
| 11 | I think that it 's a very long term thing and until the attitudes of both men and women and boys and girls at schools who come up here change , and that 's going to be a long time |
| 12 | I 'm not putting it around the table , because it 's a very long letter , and I do n't think we could have a worthwhile discussion on it right now . |
| 13 | The queue in front of the bank has n't budged since the beginning of June , and it 's a very long queue . |
| 14 | It 's still going , it 's a very long tape in here |
| 15 | There was someone before in Alex 's day , that 's a very long time ago . |
| 16 | That 's a very long time ago ! |
| 17 | But that 's a fairly long job though . |
| 18 | and I remember one particular February , it will always stand out in my mind because er , it 's a fairly long walk done to the factory from , from here and every day after the midday meal , when I set out to walk down there as quick as I could it had been cloudy since , it was raining , every day without fail I used to get to work soaked , first |
| 19 | ‘ I was struggling this morning because there is a frightfully long speech it becomes a feat of memory and if memory was the only element involved in acting then Leslie Welch the memory man would have been the greatest actor in the world . |
| 20 | There is a famously long time-lag between when work is done and when the Nobel committee doles out accolades for it . |
| 21 | I have seen one production which used the 1603 quarto version , one which used the uncut Folio text , but the majority were ‘ constructed ’ texts , omitting different passages and scenes from what is a very long play . |
| 22 | It is a very long novel ; on the other hand it seems to be one of the best novels ever written , and I would strongly recommend somebody who has perhaps read a little George Eliot to go on to that . |
| 23 | There is a very long tradition of collaboration between education and employers that stretches back to the foundation of the Mechanics Institutes in the nineteenth century — and to their even earlier precursors the Dissenting Academies — and developing through the technical colleges , colleges of advanced technology , technological universities and colleges of further and higher education . |
| 24 | It is a very long journey that we are beginning . |
| 25 | ‘ It is a very long way , for a taxi , but your uncle gave Francie the money and insisted , ’ said Finn . |
| 26 | Sorry , this is a very long way of getting around to the first crop of reviews of Philip Larkin : A Writer 's Life by Andrew Motion ( Faber ) . |
| 27 | Of course , the Planck energy is a very long way from the energies of around a hundred GeV , which are the most that we can produce in the laboratory at the present time . |
| 28 | Now Prague is a very long way from Epernay . |
| 29 | Hury is a very long reservoir . |
| 30 | A month is a very long tim in fotbal . |