Example sentences of "it [verb] a [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do this it needs a slightly longer ‘ memory ’ than either Tit for Tat or Naive Prober . |
| 2 | It has a very long neck like a duck , and the front of the body sometimes has a faint purple tinge . |
| 3 | However , the volume of research varies considerably from one polytechnic to another and , in general , it has a very long way to go before it begins to approach that generated within universities . |
| 4 | And if treated correctly it has a much longer life than synthetics . |
| 5 | It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost . |
| 6 | It seemed a very long time before he came back . |
| 7 | It look a little longer to plan how she was to make the journey to Chertsey , which she had discovered was about twenty miles away . |
| 8 | It takes a little longer but is time well spent , DO N'T JUMP IN YOURSELF WITH THE REPLY . |
| 9 | If you make apple wine you may find it takes a little longer to clear than some flower wines . |
| 10 | In this connexion it is worth remembering that it takes a little longer to change where cymbals are concerned ( owing to the way in which they are held ) but from bass drum to side-drum , triangle , or tambourine , or from any of these to any other , is a matter of seconds . |
| 11 | You can apply for it , but it takes a little longer than other places to obtain it . |
| 12 | If this is the case , the changes of the past 30 years may be the first signs of a return to the more traditional population distribution of pre-industrial Britain , but it must also be borne in mind that it takes a very long time to shift major population patterns , and that the present trends may only be a veneer on an underlying and more permanent structure . |
| 13 | Er , what companies can do , or should seek to do , is of course , see if they can manage round those tensions as well , but it takes a very long time to do that . |
| 14 | ‘ It took a very long time to reconcile myself with my father . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's easy to edit now electronically , but in those days , where editing was done by looking down a microscope for a metal ink pulse , cutting the tape physically with a guillotine and then joining edges together with sticky tape , it took a very long time and could be very wasteful . ’ |