Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] long " in BNC.

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1 In fact , there is only one car that has been around long enough to have reached an affordable price on the secondhand market — the Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.8i .
2 This is neither essential nor necessarily healthy for , by now , Koi-keeping in this country has been around long enough to develop a culture all its own .
3 Only veteran Phil Carrick has been around long enough to tell them that 45-year-old Robinson was one of the hardest working and most likeable players ever to wear a Yorkshire cap .
4 ‘ It has been so long , and this must be Perdita . ’
5 treaty was actually signed and the process has been so long and er various people have been er As it were , knocked with the Danish referendum , the french referendum , and John Major 's had his own difficulties in getting through the house of commons .
6 We do not know how long he stayed in Paris — it could have been as long as a decade .
7 The recession might not have been so long nor so deep had she listened .
8 Although insufficient to provide the full service , these bogie cars were worked hard on the main line and sometimes worked to Thornton Heath but never to Addiscombe or Penge , where they might have been too long for some of the passing loops on these lines .
9 Some of these were intended to cover such large areas ( 150 metres by 60 ) that they had to be woven in situ , since they would have been too long and far too heavy to transport to the building , and certainly could not have been manoeuvred through its maze of passages .
10 The day had been very long and packed to bursting .
11 She had been so long without a woman friend .
12 It had been so long for her she was like a dam waiting to burst .
13 Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment .
14 Sydney Samuelson , the British Film Commissioner , whose father opened a cinema in Southport in 1910 , said his association with the industry had been so long that he remembered receiving a letter signed Wil Napoleon asking how to become an extra .
15 She had been as long as 33–1 in the offices in the morning , opened 16–1 on course , before being sent off at 8–1 , and ironically it had been an eye-catching workout with the Luca Cumani-trained Red Slippers last week that convinced Bell that he had a worthy contender .
16 Poetry had been too long and too harshly divided from prose . ’
17 They had been too long from the bright lights .
18 Six months had been too long and she wanted to be home .
19 Everyone had the World Cup on their lips , the advertising ratings were very healthy — even if the structure of a team which had been too long in the comfort-zone was less than robust .
20 True , he had struggled at first to satisfy his beautiful young bride ; he had been too long a bachelor and too set in his ways .
21 It was early evening and the day had been too long .
22 The family were kind and well-meaning , but they could not help , they had been too long in Brickley .
23 She had been too long the creature of thought , and now she had seen .
24 ‘ You 've been too long in the service of the Devil , ’ Corbett joked .
25 ‘ Maybe I 've been too long with this screwy outfit ; I 'm beginning to believe that stuff they are handing out from the New York office .
26 I am sorry I have been so long in replying but I only got your letter two days ago .
27 Allegedly , most PAR reports have been too long and complicated , suffering from data and conceptual problems .
28 ‘ I have been too long in your service , ’ Ranulf grumbled .
29 It 's been so long . ’
30 It 's been so long .
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