Example sentences of "have [been] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well what this has involved me in has been a long study of a single school . |
| 32 | Oh it would have been a long while after the war yes . |
| 33 | It would have been a long story , the warming of friendship and respect between the barrel-chested Iraqi Colonel and the young man from England who had proved he could stalk and kill . |
| 34 | It must have been a long day for a boy of that age . |
| 35 | Whitaker also had Gammon entered in the World Cup final but , as his wife Claire said yesterday : ‘ It would have been a long way to go with just one horse . |
| 36 | ‘ That was the turning point — had I gone 2-1 down it would have been a long way back ’ said the Ayrshire man later . |
| 37 | It would have been a long walk to here , and no doubt some other person would have been offering a dubious lift by the time she arrived . |
| 38 | It must have been a long time ago . |
| 39 | It must have been a long summer holiday because I managed to be there both for the haymaking and the harvest . |
| 40 | Darwin was troubled by the sudden appearance of a wide diversity of fossils in the Cambrian , and tentatively suggested that there might have been a long interval prior to this period when no stratal record was preserved on the continents . |
| 41 | In Devon and Cornwall indeed there seems to have been a long tradition of piratical and privateering activity in addition to legitimate trade , which may well have laid the foundation for the activities of seamen from this part of the country in the Elizabethan age ( 63 , pp.159–60 ) . |
| 42 | Appointed a Privy Counsellor two years ago , his promotion seems to have been a long time coming , prompting some commentators to dub him ‘ The Nearly Man ’ . |
| 43 | They both drank , conscious that it had been a long afternoon , and Shelley at least was thirsty . |
| 44 | It had been a long day . ’ |
| 45 | He then telephoned Nigel 's relations for me , for which I was most grateful — it had been a long day . |
| 46 | It had been a long day — twelve hours with Mobuto , eight of those in the United Nations building where Mobuto and his entourage had spent the day . |
| 47 | It had been a long day . |
| 48 | It had been a long day for him already , and if he made it back before nine he was going to be lucky . |
| 49 | It had been a long day at the end of a busy week , but that was n't all of it . |
| 50 | It had been a long day . |
| 51 | It had been a long day and she had absorbed a lot of information on the subject that was uppermost in her mind . |
| 52 | It had been a long day for our guests , as they had left La Loupe at 1Opm on the Friday evening , so it was home to bed for a good night 's sleep , ready for a full day exploring on the Sunday . |
| 53 | It had been a long day — the children safely delivered to Grandma , the freezer full of food ( for a husband to cope on his own ) , leotards and tights packed along with all the other paraphernalia needed for a Medau display . |
| 54 | There had been a long struggle . |
| 55 | Blast , it had been a long night . |
| 56 | It had been a long time living in a hole in the ground , let's hope things get better . |
| 57 | It had been a long time since we last saw one of those , so we bought ice cream , sat in the sun and wrote postcards at the Reykjahlid shop . |
| 58 | In a way , the revolution had been a long time coming and somewhat contained in America , despite the reactions of the mass media which had been — like all conservative America — horrified , if not titillated by the lurid images of beat youth . |
| 59 | It had been a long time since he had felt like that . |
| 60 | Maybe because tonight the warning had been a long time sounding , had started its tormented wailing just when everyone began to think the bombers were n't coming . |