Example sentences of "would [be] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Tom equalled the championship record of 276 with a 70 and I thought it would be a long time before it would be broken . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some , like Denis O'Flaherty , who was in hospital for two years , would be a long time returning to the fight . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I parted with a feeling that it would be a long time before I earned her forgiveness , but I did her an injustice . |
| 8 | It would be a long time before revolution could succeed in the New World . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | To put it mildly , the phrase we seek would be a long time coming , to say nothing of the complete works of Shakespeare . |
| 14 | It would be a long time before she boarded any plane with equanimity . |