Example sentences of "it would [be] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be a long while before he turned into one of the Elders , hiding away in a living death , nurturing their effete Dreams , too fastidious to get involved with the tumult of humanity . |
| 2 | It would be a long time before all of this changed very much — and certainly it had not by the time of the Crowther Report in 1959 ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 3 | Tom equalled the championship record of 276 with a 70 and I thought it would be a long time before it would be broken . |
| 4 | It would be a long time before anyone inherited — and his sons knew that sooner or later Henry would take something from them to give to the youngest of them all , John . |
| 5 | ‘ We want to win for as long as we can because it would be a long way to go for just one game . |
| 6 | The Santa Cruz Operation was taking a bullish attitude towards the launch of Destiny last week , pointing out that it was a technology , not a product announcement , and saying that it would be a long time before the package would support the large range of peripherals in the SCO catalogue : SCO also claimed to offer pretty much everything offered by Destiny , including DOS/Windows emulation and Motif — which SCO ships , not just supports — claiming its distribution network was mature and widespread , and said it was more interested in the networked and multi-user system market than the PC and Mac replacement that USL is interested in . |
| 7 | They had made her realize that even with proved adultery it would be a long and uncertain fight before she would be allowed to take away both children as the Italian courts would be reluctant to let the prince 's son be brought up outside his own country . |
| 8 | I hoped it would be a long story . |
| 9 | He laughed and said it was beyond his remit and that it would be a long time before public health became a genuine national concept . |
| 10 | I parted with a feeling that it would be a long time before I earned her forgiveness , but I did her an injustice . |
| 11 | It would be a long task . |
| 12 | It would be a long time before revolution could succeed in the New World . |
| 13 | It would be a long time before he stopped despising himself for having succumbed to a purely physical attraction , and that towards a woman he despised . |
| 14 | It would mean returning to Wellington with a broken heart , and despite their short acquaintance she already knew it would be a long time before she would be able to evict him from her thoughts . |
| 15 | I peeled off my clothes and took a long shower — it would be a long time before I took a bath again , and certainly not round at Sunil 's — and treated myself to a proper shave with hot water and a razor . |
| 16 | After the baptism of Clovis the kingdom of the Franks was theoretically a Christian state ; that is not to say that all its members were Christian — indeed it would be a long time before the Christianization of the Merovingian kingdom was complete . |
| 17 | It would be a long time before she boarded any plane with equanimity . |
| 18 | and erm but I never thought it would be a long job . |
| 19 | I knew , as I watched the miserable small boy with large shadowed eyes clamber into the boat , that it would be a long afternoon . |