Example sentences of "it [be] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's like a long drink to a thirsty man ’ . |
| 2 | But also , look as those er , those short answers , now it 's important that you answer the short answer questions well alright , because it 's , it 's a lot easier to get good marks on a short answer question , providing you do it well , than it is on a long answer question . |
| 3 | The guy who 's been in the business or been in the same patch or whatever it is for a long time , |
| 4 | The palazzo itself will be dealt with later when the trip reaches its frontage , but it is worth a long look as you move past . |
| 5 | The little double planet Pluto has such a weird orbit that , even though almost all of the time it is by a long way the furthest known planet from the Sun , occasionally ( as at the time of writing ) it is closer to the Sun than is Neptune . |
| 6 | It was for a long time a small and cheap organisation . |
| 7 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |