Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has just been a long battle for us all . |
| 2 | You want to appeal but there has already been a long delay , and you urgently need to get it right this time . |
| 3 | He was philosophical , not to say laid back about the inconvenience of being called out unnecessarily at the end of what had already been a long day . |
| 4 | Yet there had also been a long lag before financial markets began to apply many of the points these academics made . |
| 5 | It 's just been a long , exhausting day — ’ |