Example sentences of "be [art] long time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty years may be a long time to wait for a 19p basic rate of tax . |
| 2 | You 'd be there an hour love , it 's a long time to sit by yourself . |
| 3 | Five weeks is a long time to spend on a boat with only 20 people , and the scientists traded stories and theories the entire time . |
| 4 | Which is a long time to go without It . |
| 5 | Some day we will be married ; I am certain of it , but it is a long time to wait till I am of age and we must think of some other way before then . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah , Maria , six years is a long time to wait , ’ Luke murmured with a faint sardonic smile as he registered her frantic response . |
| 7 | Seven days — a week — is a long time to wait for a telephone service nowadays . |
| 8 | Eight hours is a long time to wait to play three games , ’ said Sanchez , last year 's runner-up to Monica Seles . |
| 9 | It was a long time to wait , but not impossible . |
| 10 | Mrs Freda Bastianelli , the mother of four-month-old twin boys , who has a house on the shoreline , complained that another year was a long time to wait for a possible cure . |
| 11 | Thirty years was a long time to stay with one company . |
| 12 | It was a long time to stay quiet all day until eight o'clock at night . |
| 13 | Twenty years was a long time to bear dependence if your spirit craved something stronger and your intelligence rebelled at continual submission to powers who neither , Anna felt , knew or cared how she and Peter lived . |