Example sentences of "was quite a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was quite a long pause . |
| 2 | It was quite a long way , and coming home she let the pony trot while she ran beside me . |
| 3 | The shelter was quite a long way away , and there would n't be time to come back to the steps . |
| 4 | It was when the pale flood of light returned that Stephen saw the man — He was quite a long way off , not far in from the road , and he was standing quite still as if waiting for someone or watching . |
| 5 | Now I found that , you see , cos I passed my eleven plus and I lived in Hampshire and the grammar school was Hampshire Grammar School for Girls , which was quite a long way away from where I lived and it would have entailed a bus and the train and I and there was only me that passed and I , I did n't wan na do it . |
| 6 | This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg . |
| 7 | And mine matey and bess be about me that was quite a long exclamation but it was something surprise them terribly , Oh bess be about me , just sort of , Oh God come to me help , sort of thing . |
| 8 | It was quite a long branch , and quite thick . |
| 9 | And his point was you know , this was quite a long dream , you know , th i the manifest content , the whole argument of the dream , took some time er and his objection was , how could Freud 's theory explain this ? |
| 10 | I had to be quick , they told me ; it was quite a long climb to the hut where Eric would be waiting and I had to return to Parma that night . |
| 11 | When I first began designing for double jacquard , which was quite a long time ago , there was little or no information available and not many knitters used the technique , so over the years I learnt the hard way by trial and error . |
| 12 | That was , thing is that was quite a long time ago . |
| 13 | It was quite a long time . |
| 14 | There was quite a long silence before she said , ‘ May I tell you a story ? ’ |
| 15 | It was quite a long letter actually |
| 16 | It was quite a long kiss , very soft and smooth without obvious passion . |
| 17 | It was quite a long walk to the stables , which were at the back of the house . |
| 18 | She should have insisted , have pretended that Sophia 's part of London was inaccessible by public transport , and of course , when one came to think of it , there was quite a long walk from the station . |
| 19 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |