Example sentences of "be [adv] a [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's been dead a very long time , has n't she ? ’ |
| 2 | As a company and as individuals , we are still a very long way from the goals set at the outset of TOP in February 1992 and much remains to be done . |
| 3 | This water had been there a very long time , and smelled no better than it should . |
| 4 | It 's been there a very long time , cos that man was old who asked me , you , you know it was an old man he said that , and I was quite young , he said er , er is that cross still there in , in Chichester , I said yes , it 's still there . |
| 5 | From a herb border to a complete herb garden is not a very long step , and once the initial interest has been started with the planting of single plants here and there in the garden , it is not long before friends are giving one new species , other varieties are discovered at garden centres , and catalogues are found to list even more . |
| 6 | This is not a very long list of " media offences " . |
| 7 | It 's not a very long journey it 's , it 's . |
| 8 | Under the present director , Geoffrey Morgan , a soft-spoken Welshman whose main outside interest is silkworms , the list of names has moved away from the Reform Club and further out into Middle England , although it is still a very long way short of representing a cross-section of the population . |
| 9 | And here there is still a very long way to go . |
| 10 | But it is now a very long time since I was there . ’ |
| 11 | This is very unfortunate , but it is n't a very long journey . |
| 12 | Most of the company wives do n't see their husbands for about sixty five per cent of the year , which is actually a very long time when you 're living in these sort of conditions . |
| 13 | But he was still a very long way from knowing enough to judge the value of what each of them had chosen , or would choose to tell him , and what they would , for differing reasons , see fit to suppress . |
| 14 | It was n't er , it was n't a very long one was it , it was two or three months was it ? |
| 15 | There was therefore a very long period during which the need for a god was having its effect on the developing mind of man , but during which no god worship as now understood was practised . |