Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began explaining , straight on , then first right , on to the second set of lights … etcetera … etcetera … it 's rather a long walk , sir , he concluded . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's rather a long way , though . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's rather a long story . |
| 4 | I have n't actually got the , got page , it 's rather a long case |
| 5 | It 's rather a long time is n't it ? |
| 6 | It 's not a long course , but it will examine every aspect of technique with every club in the bag . |
| 7 | It 's not a long story . |
| 8 | It 's not a , it 's not a long journey either from Queensbury to Morecambe is it ? |
| 9 | ‘ But it 's not love , it 's just a long series of tactics . ’ |
| 10 | it 's just a long drive over there |
| 11 | If you plant a crop , it 's quite a long time before it |
| 12 | " You 'll probably have plenty of time to do something about your trouble anyway , " he said to Willis , " it 's quite a long business , arranging the sale of these boats . |
| 13 | So it 's quite a long while ago and I 've travelled round quite a bit since then . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's quite a long time since I made any . |
| 15 | N no I don er it 's quite a long st we it 's quite a long story . |
| 16 | N no I don er it 's quite a long st we it 's quite a long story . |
| 17 | That it 's quite a long time to achieve . |
| 18 | It 's quite a long time since breakfast . ’ |
| 19 | Well it , it 's quite a long one , but you might be able to make something of it , erm , there was this rock and erm |
| 20 | that 's quite a drop you know , because it 's quite a long way down |
| 21 | Since 1986 's ‘ It 's Only A Long Way Across ’ , his songs have come wrapped in an electric blanket which has been soaked in the bog-holes of Ireland and then dry cleaned in the side alleys of Greenwich Village . |
| 22 | ‘ But it 's still a long way off . |
| 23 | It 's still a long way off ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The evidence shows that while it is swinging slowly , it 's still a long way from the centre and it 's certainly not swinging the other way . ’ |
| 25 | I have an idea that there 's this wonderful , amazing painting and everyone 'll love it and I did it , but it 's down a long tunnel somewhere . |
| 26 | It is not a long — term strategy upon which Europe can depend . |
| 27 | It is also a long way away from the local management of schools ( LMS ) : local authorities , chief education officers and elected members of local councils now have little of the power of the early 1980s . |
| 28 | It is certainly a long way from the crowds cheering at John F. Kennedy 's ‘ Ich bin ein Berliner ’ speech in front of the Berlin Wall in 1962 to the communiqué issued after Honecker 's visit to West Germany in 1987 : ‘ both states agreed to respect the sovereignty and independence of each other in both domestic and foreign matters ’ . |
| 29 | It is certainly a long way from proving ‘ enormously significant to … . 200 million malaria sufferers ’ , as your article claims . |
| 30 | As the PAL:YPE recalls , this impression was based on a combination of physical environment , staff vision , and an existing commitment to an infrastructure including a permanent part-time library assistant : School A I was impressed with , because they too had already started to talk about resource-based learning and they already had as far as I remember … ( now my memory is fairly vague now because it is quite a long time ago ) … but as far as I remember they had a Headmaster , who was extremely interested , very keen indeed , and they had a committee already set up , I think to look into this . |