Example sentences of "in a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She indulged in a blissfully long bath , taking time to wash her hair and then comb it out , before drying it with a hand drier . |
| 2 | And , that , it has n't changed , in a very long while . |
| 3 | Then the man spoke his first word in a very long time as he looked at Beth panting away . |
| 4 | That he did n't manage to cover the remaining 146 miles does n't really matter , for his peregrination from Battery Park to Times Square makes one of the most intriguing accounts of an asphalt jungle to have appeared in a very long time . |
| 5 | Pleased and strangely girlish , which was a feeling she had not had in a very long time . |
| 6 | Foinavon was the first horse over the twenty-third and found himself in a very long lead . |
| 7 | I was a very small link in an immensely long chain . |
| 8 | In an indefinitely long game , the important point is that we can both win at the expense of the banker , rather than at the expense of one another . |