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 | While the delay to the start of the flying programme has been much longer than anyone would wish , much more progress has been made in the ground and rig testing than at the comparable stage of any previous project I have been associated with and we are very satisfied indeed with the results that have been obtained so far . |
| 5 | ‘ It has been so long , and this must be Perdita . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I recently had a liver transplant at Addenbrooke 's Hospital and still feel guilty that inevitably the decision was made to give me a liver rather than someone else whose life expectancy may have been marginally longer . |
| 8 | We do not know how long he stayed in Paris — it could have been as long as a decade . |
| 9 | The recession might not have been so long nor so deep had she listened . |
| 10 | Had the victim been old Fagg himself , the suspect list would have been much longer and more colourful , in every sense of the word . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Also his journeys to and from work would have been considerably longer and more expensive . |
| 14 | The day had been very long and packed to bursting . |
| 15 | She had been so long without a woman friend . |
| 16 | It had been so long for her she was like a dam waiting to burst . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Poetry had been too long and too harshly divided from prose . ’ |
| 21 | They had been too long from the bright lights . |
| 22 | Six months had been too long and she wanted to be home . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was early evening and the day had been too long . |
| 26 | The family were kind and well-meaning , but they could not help , they had been too long in Brickley . |
| 27 | She had been too long the creature of thought , and now she had seen . |
| 28 | ‘ You 've been too long in the service of the Devil , ’ Corbett joked . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | I am sorry I have been so long in replying but I only got your letter two days ago . |