Example sentences of "be [art] [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 It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan .
4 ‘ It has been an awful long time just getting to this stage , but it will be worth it if we can succeed . ’
5 It 's been an awful long time for this part has n't it ?
6 ‘ 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 . ’
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 A week can be an awfully long time in political journalism .
11 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 .
12 There was someone before in Alex 's day , that 's a very long time ago .
13 That 's a very long time ago !
14 Vienna Dear Fräulein Arandt , It is a very long time since I heard from you .
15 But it is a very long time since anyone attempted a popular history of the left in Britain .
16 One of the points we made was that even a few years in multimedia development is a very long time .
17 As one complained : ‘ It 's an awfully long time to sit there .
18 Yeah the minutes of the meeting of the nineteenth of February nineteen ninety two , that 's an awful long time ago erm , and it is proposed to bring into force byelaws for district and parish council-owned land upon or as soon as possible after the first of April nineteen ninety two .
19 Three and a half hours for a three-pound piece of veal — and on top of the stove too — is an awful long time .
20 Gillian 's Uncle George was a very long time coming .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 That was , that was an awfully long time ago was n't it ?
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