Example sentences of "'s [art] [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ That 's a jolly long walk , if you do n't mind my saying so , ’ Harvey remarked and smiled in a twisted way . |
2 | ‘ Negotiating with customers took time too ; it 's a very long haul in the Eastern European market , ’ comments Pomfret . |
3 | ‘ It 's a very long story . |
4 | ‘ It 's a very long way , dear , and bound to be boggy at this time of year . |
5 | Most people thinks that 's a very long way off , but in the case of something like health then erm we certainly agree health is good for a very long way . |
6 | It 's , it 's a very long way to cycle , is it er , have you done anything like before Chris ? |
7 | It 's a very long struggle for decent wages erm recognition at work , the same kind of jobs that men have erm it 's interesting the results of the Guardian survey yesterday , ten thousand replies they had , and there were a tiny percentage of women that earned over thirty thousand , so you could see that many , many of the job tops are still in the hands of men . |
8 | Well there was just , it 's not , surprising it 's a very long day , when you initially said I allow the period of the plaintiff by mistake you said defendant , just for the record |
9 | So imagine you were writing Jayne here J now it 's a very long name , Jayne and you have to put the title on there too , so I could n't put it all in capital letters on this occasion could I ? |
10 | Erm , it 's a very long term thing , and John 's been working through the tenants ' action group on it so I personally do n't know what , what the kind of take up is on that , er |
11 | I think that it 's a very long term thing and until the attitudes of both men and women and boys and girls at schools who come up here change , and that 's going to be a long time |
12 | I 'm not putting it around the table , because it 's a very long letter , and I do n't think we could have a worthwhile discussion on it right now . |
13 | The queue in front of the bank has n't budged since the beginning of June , and it 's a very long queue . |
14 | It 's still going , it 's a very long tape in here |
15 | There was someone before in Alex 's day , that 's a very long time ago . |
16 | That 's a very long time ago ! |
17 | But that 's a fairly long job though . |
18 | and I remember one particular February , it will always stand out in my mind because er , it 's a fairly long walk done to the factory from , from here and every day after the midday meal , when I set out to walk down there as quick as I could it had been cloudy since , it was raining , every day without fail I used to get to work soaked , first |
19 | ‘ It 's an awfully long joke , ’ says Miriam . |
20 | As one complained : ‘ It 's an awfully long time to sit there . |
21 | I suppose because one is so helpless , there 's nothing you can do if anything goes wrong and it 's an awful long way down . |
22 | Yeah the minutes of the meeting of the nineteenth of February nineteen ninety two , that 's an awful long time ago erm , and it is proposed to bring into force byelaws for district and parish council-owned land upon or as soon as possible after the first of April nineteen ninety two . |