Example sentences of "long while [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others had been saying that nobody wore the Party badge any longer in Munich and that ‘ for a long while not a single person had believed anything the Führer had said ’ . |
| 2 | I remember these nomads myself , from a long while ago in Scotland . |
| 3 | A long while ago I watched Tom Keating on TV painting a ship during which he discussed putting on a varnish and painting in the rigging through the varnish as the only means of getting a nice line . |
| 4 | But er the government , a long while ago , actually decided they ought to do something about knocking the institutions ' heads together and they drew up a plan called the Council of Engineering Institutes , where the idea was we get a little of coordination across the entire patch . |
| 5 | Liz died a long while ago . ’ |
| 6 | It all seemed such a very long while ago … |
| 7 | So it 's quite a long while ago and I 've travelled round quite a bit since then . |
| 8 | ‘ A long while ago now , Nona . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Humankind condemned itself a long while ago to a perpetual diet of catastrophe . |
| 10 | they they get an allowance for somebody to clean and if they 've got a cleaner , I mean , they should have sacked them a long while ago ! |
| 11 | I wish I 'd have took them out a long while ago when they were higher . |
| 12 | I 've read somewhere a long while ago , there was some sort of warning and I ca n't remember the details you know . |
| 13 | That 's a long while ago . |
| 14 | If I 'd of been there I 'd of flogged that a long while ago and got rid of it |
| 15 | No , this was done a long while ago , |
| 16 | Well I know a long while ago |
| 17 | Took my a long while ago . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've been out a long while already . |
| 19 | Jean was tough and liked to drink ; she would endure for a long while yet . |
| 20 | Anyway , nuffink 's gon na 'appen fer a long while yet so the owners are lettin' the place out fer rent . |
| 21 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 22 | and er , she said my eyes really sparkled she said first time I 've seen them sparkle for a long while so I was right chuffed about that . |
| 23 | I , I , I been out it a long while now . |
| 24 | Yet there are also brief moments of recovery , moments of gratified desire and a coming to life : ‘ on this abandoned divan , I shall inhale for a long while still the earthy , vegetal smell which the faun left behind ; then , in the morning , wakened at dawn , I shall fling myself into the delicious air ’ ( p. 104 ) . |
| 25 | It took me a long while though to realise that was Meg Ryan at the beginning . |