Example sentences of "be a [adv] long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am very sorry , ’ he said , ‘ but you must understand it has been a very long time … |
| 2 | Anyway , it had been a very long time ago , goodness gracious , it had been at least six years . |
| 3 | ‘ No , really — think about the last time you went a day without wearing make-up and I bet it would be a frighteningly long time ago . ’ |
| 4 | It will be a very long time before the actual causes of war are entirely removed , if ever , but a truly human religion would change the historic misuse of long established religions , and serve as a counter to war , not provide justification for it . |
| 5 | Now that he was n't looming over her , she felt more composed , and it would be a very long time before she ever took a stranger on trust again . |
| 6 | I d I know that , there 's that phrase you know , we will never see his like again , I think we probably will , but it will be a very long time , and I can not tell you the infinite feeling of sadness erm , that I felt when I heard of his passing . |
| 7 | there have n't been many ice hockey sims on the 64 — the only two I can recall ( Powerplay Hockey and Superstar Ice Hockey ) were a very long time ago . |
| 8 | There was someone before in Alex 's day , that 's a very long time ago . |
| 9 | That 's a very long time ago ! |
| 10 | Vienna Dear Fräulein Arandt , It is a very long time since I heard from you . |
| 11 | But it is a very long time since anyone attempted a popular history of the left in Britain . |
| 12 | One of the points we made was that even a few years in multimedia development is a very long time . |
| 13 | Gillian 's Uncle George was a very long time coming . |
| 14 | The people in his past had been real once but , although that was a very long time ago , he had never been able to forget them or what they had done to his life . |
| 15 | And then , with an abrupt gesture , ‘ But it was a very long time ago , and I do not know the details , for I was never told . |
| 16 | The Opposition replied , ’ That was 10 years ago ’ , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Teignbridge ( Mr. Nicholls ) , whom I commend for this observation , said , that 10 years was a very long time for the Leader of the Opposition and 10 minutes was about the average length of every policy that he had put forward . |