Example sentences of "[ex0] be a [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There is a famously long time-lag between when work is done and when the Nobel committee doles out accolades for it . |
| 4 | there 's there 's and we just , what he must of had and he skidded and there was a blooming long track of mud down the carpet you know ! |
| 5 | There was a very long story about him and Donald in the Rose and Thorn , a short , rather vulgar anecdote about something that had happened to Donald 's wife while crossing Wimbledon Common and a boastful piece about how he , Henry , had amused some French sailors in the bar at the Mini Golf , Boulogne sur Mer . |
| 6 | There was a very long and comfortable settee in front of the window which had a view of the River Thames which mesmerized me to such an extent that I could scarcely tear myself away to go to bed . |
| 7 | There was a very long gap of years between the mass petitioning of 1792 and that of 1823–4 with the single exception of the 1814 campaign against the reopening of the French slave trade after the war . |
| 8 | And there was a very long corridor with a mo what must have been I should think five , there was no sixth form , so there 'd be five classes , five classrooms off this long the hallway perhaps as wide as this room which is what thirteen feet . |