Example sentences of "seem a very 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 | They seem a very long time ago now . |
8 | 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 . |