Example sentences of "[det] a long [noun] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did try and help her about how to run a war because it 's such a long time since anybody 's run a war — I mean the technical methods of running a war — which she did very well . |
| 2 | Not because she could n't remember , but because it was such a long time since she 'd seen her and she felt strange , suddenly , knowing that this time tomorrow they would be on their way to Scotland and she would be waiting for them . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's been such a long time since you 've seen him . |
| 4 | Myra 's familiar voice made her want to cry ; it seemed such a long time since things had been normal , with nothing more exciting than new orders to think about . |
| 5 | It 's all a long way since his early acting days on the stage in the late Seventies which culminated in playing Lady MacDuff in an all-male production of Macbeth in Glasgow . |