Example sentences of "would be [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I hoped it would be a long story .
2 I knew , as I watched the miserable small boy with large shadowed eyes clamber into the boat , that it would be a long afternoon .
3 spotting a narrow isthmus on the map near Northton we opted for a large portage ; half a kilometre would be a long way but , following our Griminish Point experience , the safer option seemed favourable .
4 ‘ We want to win for as long as we can because it would be a long way to go for just one game .
5 It would be a long while before he turned into one of the Elders , hiding away in a living death , nurturing their effete Dreams , too fastidious to get involved with the tumult of humanity .
6 You might think that there would be a long line of officials queuing up to undertake such a testing spying mission — and apparently there was .
7 and erm but I never thought it would be a long job .
8 However , Bukharin did acknowledge that there would be a long period when petty commodity production would spontaneously arise , and that the struggle between state organised agricultural production and petty commodity production would — as he saw it — be a struggle between socialist and capitalist tendencies in the economic arena .
9 Instead it was understood that there would be a long period of commodity circulation and all that that implied .
10 It would be a long task .
11 It would be a long time before all of this changed very much — and certainly it had not by the time of the Crowther Report in 1959 ( see Chapter 8 ) .
12 Tom equalled the championship record of 276 with a 70 and I thought it would be a long time before it would be broken .
13 It would be a long time before anyone inherited — and his sons knew that sooner or later Henry would take something from them to give to the youngest of them all , John .
14 Some , like Denis O'Flaherty , who was in hospital for two years , would be a long time returning to the fight .
15 The Santa Cruz Operation was taking a bullish attitude towards the launch of Destiny last week , pointing out that it was a technology , not a product announcement , and saying that it would be a long time before the package would support the large range of peripherals in the SCO catalogue : SCO also claimed to offer pretty much everything offered by Destiny , including DOS/Windows emulation and Motif — which SCO ships , not just supports — claiming its distribution network was mature and widespread , and said it was more interested in the networked and multi-user system market than the PC and Mac replacement that USL is interested in .
16 He laughed and said it was beyond his remit and that it would be a long time before public health became a genuine national concept .
17 I parted with a feeling that it would be a long time before I earned her forgiveness , but I did her an injustice .
18 It would be a long time before revolution could succeed in the New World .
19 It would be a long time before he stopped despising himself for having succumbed to a purely physical attraction , and that towards a woman he despised .
20 It would mean returning to Wellington with a broken heart , and despite their short acquaintance she already knew it would be a long time before she would be able to evict him from her thoughts .
21 I peeled off my clothes and took a long shower — it would be a long time before I took a bath again , and certainly not round at Sunil 's — and treated myself to a proper shave with hot water and a razor .
22 After the baptism of Clovis the kingdom of the Franks was theoretically a Christian state ; that is not to say that all its members were Christian — indeed it would be a long time before the Christianization of the Merovingian kingdom was complete .
23 To put it mildly , the phrase we seek would be a long time coming , to say nothing of the complete works of Shakespeare .
24 It would be a long time before she boarded any plane with equanimity .
25 Er there would be a walkout , there would be a wa there would be no long discussion of it .
26 By and large that particular go erm , statement , which is actually embodied in financial regulations also , envisage erm , a a situation where there would be no long term borrowing .
27 In a week 's time it would be the longest day of the year when , in these latitudes , a gunner could accurately sight a twelve-pounder at half-past nine of an evening .
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