Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has been here a long time and will be here for even longer , ’ Felipe answered smoothly . |
| 2 | This siter has been here a long time and is part of the area . |
| 3 | Because the common holly , Ilex aquifolium , has been around a long time and produced many ornamental varieties , you will find quite a few with fancy botanical names . |
| 4 | But as I 've already mentioned distributed database theory has been around a long time . |
| 5 | After an early phase of rapid growth initiated by enterprising , indigenous farmers and leading to an increasingly capitalist social structure , by 1939 the Ghanaian cocoa industry had entered what has been generally a long decline accompanied by reduced employment of wage-labour . |
| 6 | Erm , er I 'll I 'll close it at two , but perhaps I could ask the the applicants erm , I mean I appreciate that obviously erm it er it economy in in in obviously in what you 're doing , but I think it it it would be fairly obviously to , I mean it 's been stated that that that that residents nearby would prefer either two bungalows or a house and a bungalow , and I think er that certainly erm new developments adjacent to where you are proposing these are in fact all bungalows , er with the exception of the mill , which of course has been there a long time , er all those on that side of the road , both those two built and those two proposed are a bungalow or a semi bungalow , er and so erm you can see that obviously it is that the height of these buildings , it is erm causing the offence , largely , erm I I think , I mean obviously you will want to main you know , optimize your er development , but whether er a scheme with two bungalows that they would n't be four bedroomed bungalows , because there would n't be room for two of the four two four bedroomed bungalows , erm |
| 7 | This has been quite a long , drawn-out argument , and it is time to remind ourselves of how we got into it in the first place . |
| 8 | ‘ I only took a quick look , he 'd been dead a long time , it was n't nice , and yet — it looked like Uncle Mosse . ’ |
| 9 | And wheeling them to the ship you know , then after you 'd been there a long time , well my father was a down below and I went to his shop then you see . |
| 10 | And , of course , having been around a long time . |
| 11 | THE gap between Absolute Beginners and Earth Girls Are Easy seems to have been rather a long one . |
| 12 | He is also much younger , 23 , than I thought — he seemed to have been around a long time . |
| 13 | Belmodes had been around a long time . |
| 14 | An example I quote is of two particular members of staff who had been there a long time , and so , when I walked into the staff room , they were in the same seats . |
| 15 | I I ca n't comment on on comments that you are referencing , however I will say that in Maryland er we displaced an incumbent vendor who had been there a long time , er that vendor was a bit upset as you might imagine with being displaced as a vendor , and in Maryland we had a situation that kind of evolved into the same kind of political row you would expect when a company loses a long time business . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've been here a long while , have n't you , Raech ? |
| 17 | So they 've been here a long long while . |
| 18 | No I 've been I 've been here a long time like |
| 19 | You 've been away a long time have n't you ? |
| 20 | At least I do n't mean that — not a good show for you , I know — but frankly when you 've been down a long time it is a good show to see someone from home and get all the news . |
| 21 | ‘ Even as a new MP , she has got a much better grounding in the way that the Treasury and Number 10 work than most MPs who 've been there a long time . ’ |
| 22 | It shows how well we are conducting the service , in what is an old bedding factory , after all , and if you 've been to Winchester lately , you will have seen a six million pound record office , with with modern architecture in a prominent position in Winchester , er , which I 'm sure they 're conducting a service , but I 'll bet you that pound for pound we 're giving a far better service in Wiltshire , with our dedicated staff , who 've been there a long time . |
| 23 | You always find wherever you are that the people who 've been there a long time get sort of erm a bit uppity , they think that they 're |
| 24 | We 've been together a long time and people in the band like Paul and Mark and Gaz have a few things to prove themselves . |
| 25 | " We 've been together a long time Her voice went thick and inarticulate . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've been out a long while already . |
| 27 | They 've been out a long time colleagues , seventeen weeks . |
| 28 | Paul 's verdict : Bags have been around a long time now and Rohan can justifiably claim to have prompted other companies to come up with versions of their original . |
| 29 | Some have been around a long time , others are of more recent origins . |
| 30 | I have been here a long time . |