Example sentences of "seem a [adv] long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some ways those days when she had lived in Paula 's shadow seemed a very long time ago , in others they might have been just yesterday . |
| 2 | It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost . |
| 3 | It seemed a very long time before he came back . |
| 4 | I waited , cold and tired , in his room for what seemed a very long time . |
| 5 | She talked to me for what seemed a very long time . |
| 6 | We stood there , all four of us , in silence for what seemed a very long time . |
| 7 | She waited what seemed an interminably long time before the same young maid again confronted her . |
| 8 | The annual camp for secondary schools Cadet Corps gave me my first holiday away from home , but I was so homesick that a fortnight seemed an impossibly long time before I could get back to my parents and family . |
| 9 | They seem a very long time ago now . |
| 10 | Beat it for ten minutes , that 's it seems an awfully long time to just stand there and . |
| 11 | Seems an awful long time ago in some ways , you know , camping . |
| 12 | We had questions at the very beginning of this meeting which seems an awful long time ago now er asking for youth provision in other areas of the county . |
| 13 | Eighty years does n't seem a very long time when you consider the art of acting has been prospering in Europe over the last four hundred or so years , quite apart from the great traditions of ancient Greek drama . |