Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm we used to go into the assembly hall every morning for prayer and then we should just go up to the erm we we used to go upstairs to the er to the classrooms which were off a long corridor . |
| 2 | In the modern age , institutions outside the family have been created to administer public affairs and women were for a long time expressly excluded . |
| 3 | My parents were from a long line of good people with a strong sense of duty , living at peace with their neighbours , quick to be helpful when it was in their power , understandably a little feudal in their outlook , with a cautious eye on the squire for whom they worked , liking a glass of beer or homemade parsnip wine , and not above a bit of rabbit poaching . |
| 4 | One would have had greater confidence if the selection were from a longer list nominated by other bodies unconnected with the government of the day . |
| 5 | B : oh they were on a long while I think before that + |
| 6 | The British White , largely on the basis of its coat pattern , was for a long while considered to be merely a polled variety of the White Park and , of course , there was some interbreeding . |
| 7 | His great courage at the time eventually earned him the Military Cross , but the harrowing experience was for a long while foremost in his mind and symbolized by the walk back to his commanding officer over a mass of dead German and British soldiers in which his feet scarcely touched the ground . |
| 8 | This hypothesis was for a long time a subject of much contention in anthropology and is not even now entirely laid to rest , but the meagre historical record we possess can not possibly support such an assertion . |
| 9 | Nell stayed as she was for a long time , then had an inspiration . |
| 10 | The other recalls what was for a long time Britain 's worst air disaster . |
| 11 | The mainstream of early French political socialism was for a long time essentially petit bourgeois , in its absence of rapprochement with trade unions , in its party organizational form , and in the social background of its parliamentarians and membership . |
| 12 | In university circles there was for a long time little sympathy for the innovators , and in his younger days Nietzsche 's own tastes inclined the same way . |
| 13 | It was for a long time a small and cheap organisation . |
| 14 | The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) . |
| 15 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 16 | She remembered that John 's only rehearsal place at the time was in a long room above a sundry warehouse in Lower Moseley Street . |
| 17 | She was on a long time . |
| 18 | ‘ I told you , that was over a long time ago . ’ |