Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since it necessarily takes a long time to produce such a report , the mandatory period within which the legal claim should be registered has frequently , even usually , expired before the report is available . |
| 2 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
| 3 | He believes it still has a long way to go . |
| 4 | Even if Hanson holds on to the British end of the ARC operation , it still has a long list of ConsGold assets to offload including : |
| 5 | Kubota has at least half a dozen Alpha chips in the labs , but says it still has a long way to go before there is sufficient software support to bring out the Titan 2.0 . |
| 6 | Bernie Ecclestone , however , feels guardedly optimistic , ‘ It always takes a long time to get an F1 race up and running in the US , ’ he said . |
| 7 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 8 | It also ends a long wrangle between Skandia and its two largest shareholders , Hafnia and Uni Storebrand of Norway which had been trying to use their combined 43 p.c. stakes to force a three-way merger . |
| 9 | It now bore a long yellow blister , fag shaped and red round the edges , but there was still no pain , not even when I pressed it . |
| 10 | In a big house it often takes a long time for everyone to find ‘ Smee ’ . |
| 11 | Also the fragility of the grammar — there are a number of features that are not covered by the grammar and it often takes a long time to reject the sentence . |
| 12 | The two drawbacks were that it initially took a long time to get into , and it was hot — the first problem was solved , the second not . |
| 13 | I do n't know when this story started but it certainly happened a long time ago . |
| 14 | Weary of Israel 's ceaseless importuning , it recently produced a long and scholarly ‘ confidential report ’ which concludes that , since Arafat told the UN General Assembly last December that he recognised Israel 's right to exist and ‘ renounced ’ terrorism , the PLO has not been speaking with ‘ forked tongues ’ and its declarations have ‘ for the most part been consistent , regardless of the media in which they appear . ’ |