Example sentences of "it [verb] [be] [art] long " in BNC.
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1 | It has been a long time since the women 's game has been so open ; hopefully it will continue . |
2 | It has been a long day , but there are still a couple of hours to run , and this is Berlin , where anything can happen . |
3 | Everyone is contemplating an early night — it has been a long day , one of the busiest for a while . |
4 | I thought I would go home when I left but it has been a long time . |
5 | It has been a long time . |
6 | It has been a long and widely held assumption that crime is very much more frequent among those of low social status . |
7 | This is a very beautiful music , serene , noble , discreet , poignant , composed , grief-stricken , understated , sublime — it has been a long time since I discovered anything quite so touching . |
8 | It has been a long and winding road for the much-travelled Quinn to achieve fully-fledged Premier League status , even though his career record is better than a goal every two games . |
9 | With more and more database engines sitting on networked servers , it has been a long time coming — the tricky bit , says Shandell is implementing ‘ remote queue pointers ’ . |
10 | To a few of us it may seem like only yesterday , but to the Princess , I suspect , it has been a long decade , for she has completed a most extraordinary metamorphosis . |
11 | It has been a long time coming , and apparently impatient fans bombard the Pan press office weekly for information on its appearance . |
12 | ‘ I do n't usually do that , but it has been a long day . ’ |
13 | ‘ It has been a long time , Warren , ’ she said evenly . |
14 | ‘ It has been a long hard season for Nigel , and obviously he 'll be a little bit down after what happened at Wembley , ’ said Bingham . |
15 | ‘ Well , it has been a long time , and I expect you and Marissa … ’ |
16 | Phil Farrand says it is brilliant … it has been a long slog and has meant a lot of hard work |
17 | ‘ Well , ’ she taunted foolishly , ‘ it has been a long time . ’ |
18 | God it 's only quarter past two , it has been a long day in n it ? |
19 | It had been a long time living in a hole in the ground , let's hope things get better . |
20 | It had been a long time since we last saw one of those , so we bought ice cream , sat in the sun and wrote postcards at the Reykjahlid shop . |
21 | It had been a long hot day on the farm where I help my father with his large dairy herd . |
22 | It had been a long , slow journey from Odessa and although it was already 1am there were still many more official forms to fill out before their new life in Israel could begin . |
23 | It had been a long ride to an enclosure full of low single-storeyed huts of corrugated iron with cinder paths around , and all set in a large flat field of sparse greying grass . |
24 | It had been a long walk so far , and it was n't over . |
25 | It had been a long time since he had felt like that . |
26 | It had been a long day . ’ |
27 | He then telephoned Nigel 's relations for me , for which I was most grateful — it had been a long day . |
28 | It was a dream , it had been a long time since Hari had seen her mother smile for the death of her husband had knocked all the spirit out of Win Morgan . |
29 | Because of the ancient feud with the Dwarfs , it had been a long time since any High Elf had set foot on the Old World . |
30 | It had been a long , tiring business and his hands were sore and chafed from the ropes . |