Example sentences of "has be [art] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelly , who has won this race three times , said : ‘ It has been a very long and hard season for me , and I feel very tired . |
| 2 | ‘ I am very sorry , ’ he said , ‘ but you must understand it has been a very long time … |
| 3 | In spite of the fact that there has been a very long tradition of work on rural land use , including the invaluable land use survey of the 1930s ( Stamp , 1962 ) , and its revival in the second survey of the 1960s and 1970s * ( Coleman et al , 1974 ) and much other detailed work from other sources ( Hart , 1980 ; Coppock , 1960a ; Best , 1981 ) as shown in Table 8. 1 , there is still a desperate need ( Hall , 1 974 , 414 ) for a ‘ national Domesday book for land use , preferably updated every 10 years at the time of the population census ’ . |
| 4 | It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan . |
| 5 | ‘ It has been an awful long time just getting to this stage , but it will be worth it if we can succeed . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ This has been an extraordinarily long ordeal , but I always knew I would be vindicated , ’ Mr Greenway , MP for Ealing North , London , said yesterday . |