Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It feels like I 've been asleep for a long , long time . |
| 2 | You 've been asleep for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | This may have been due to the long delays in the submission and execution of spot trades caused by the overloading of the NYSE order routing system . |
| 4 | It would not have been possible for the long progression towards the perfect physical being , to have ever occurred at all , if it were encumbered by the constraints of compassion , an emotion which , by the very nature of evolution was completely non-existent before the dawn of civilisation . |
| 5 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 6 | If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome . |
| 7 | At the very least , the discipline of being involved in some form of training will help counteract the feeling of lethargy that creeps over many people who have been unemployed for a long while — a characteristic which is very counterproductive in an interview . |
| 8 | To summarize : if you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long period : |
| 9 | It has been clear for a long time that where land adjoining the highway is unintentionally entered , i.e. as a result of a car accident , that the plaintiff must prove negligence ( River Wear Commissioners v Adamson ( 1877 ) 2 App Cas 743 ) . |
| 10 | The trend towards equality of attainment is especially marked in schools that have been comprehensive for a long time . |
| 11 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 12 | ‘ War 's been inevitable for a long time , Anne . ’ |
| 13 | Old John Knox had been ill for a long time and , two years after I joined the firm , he was told that he must retire . |
| 14 | Very often I spend long days on my allotment , and cook quite nice dinners of , say , breast of mutton and peas and fruit off the allotment for myself and a [ woman ] friend who has been ill for a long time … . |
| 15 | Stable jockey Chris Grant said : ‘ He had been ill for a long while , but carried on because his horses were his life . ’ |
| 16 | But the poor woman had been ill for a long time , although we had not realized it , and died soon after Hareton was born . |
| 17 | ‘ She 'd been ill for a long time . |
| 18 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 19 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 20 | When the silence had been undisturbed for a long , chilly while he crept out of his nest and drew himself gently up the last few yards of broken rock into the long grass and bushes at the edge of the plateau . |
| 21 | The full significance of this fleeting moment is only evident when the letter page of HBR reveals a bitter contest over screen design between American Airlines , the developers of the system , and trans Atlantic competitors ; ‘ a chief legal officer of a major international airline … had just been involved in a long , rancorous struggle to get its non stop flight from Europe to the United States off the 23rd of SABRE 's 23 possible screens ’ ( HBR , July-August 1990 : 176 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ And this man , Leonora , has been celibate for a long time . |
| 23 | I think he 'd been better for a long time on and off |
| 24 | ‘ That 's not sour grapes or anything like it more a professional belief in myself that it would have been better in the long run for ME Eithne Browne and probably for Chrissie , too . |
| 25 | Rural groups have been vulnerable for a long time . |
| 26 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 27 | I have n't been happy for a long time but now I think I 'm going to be . ’ |
| 28 | May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on what he has done at Maastricht in limiting the powers of the Commission , about which my constituents have been concerned for a long time ? |
| 29 | The other important sub-sect to figure prominently in recent biblical scholarship has been familiar for a long time , but under a different name . |
| 30 | Both sides seemed satisfied and although it is unlikely that a two-tier Champagne classification would have been workable in the long term , it sufficed for the present although it was still being debated in the Senate when war broke out three years later . |