Example sentences of "have [been] a long " in BNC.
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| 31 | There has been a long and rather pointless debate on this question . |
| 32 | and that has been a long time coming but it now appears to be |
| 33 | ‘ Well , it has been a long time , and I expect you and Marissa … ’ |
| 34 | Phil Farrand says it is brilliant … it has been a long slog and has meant a lot of hard work |
| 35 | Mr Foster said : ‘ There has been a long period of uncertainty which always causes problems . |
| 36 | ‘ Well , ’ she taunted foolishly , ‘ it has been a long time . ’ |
| 37 | God it 's only quarter past two , it has been a long day in n it ? |
| 38 | Well what this has involved me in has been a long study of a single school . |
| 39 | Well what this has involved me in has been a long study of a single school . |
| 40 | Whitaker also had Gammon entered in the World Cup final but , as his wife Claire said yesterday : ‘ It would have been a long way to go with just one horse . |
| 41 | But this would have been a long and painful process . |
| 42 | It must have been a long summer holiday because I managed to be there both for the haymaking and the harvest . |
| 43 | It would have been a long story , the warming of friendship and respect between the barrel-chested Iraqi Colonel and the young man from England who had proved he could stalk and kill . |
| 44 | Darwin was troubled by the sudden appearance of a wide diversity of fossils in the Cambrian , and tentatively suggested that there might have been a long interval prior to this period when no stratal record was preserved on the continents . |
| 45 | I suspect you were disguised as a personable young man , a merry companion for the Gascons , after what must have been a long and gruelling journey . |
| 46 | It would have been a long walk to here , and no doubt some other person would have been offering a dubious lift by the time she arrived . |
| 47 | It must have been a long time ago . |
| 48 | ‘ That was the turning point — had I gone 2-1 down it would have been a long way back ’ said the Ayrshire man later . |
| 49 | It must have been a long day for a boy of that age . |
| 50 | Oh it would have been a long while after the war yes . |
| 51 | Appointed a Privy Counsellor two years ago , his promotion seems to have been a long time coming , prompting some commentators to dub him ‘ The Nearly Man ’ . |
| 52 | My mother-in-law 's death , seemed to have been a long , lingering and painful end , bravely borne . |
| 53 | In Devon and Cornwall indeed there seems to have been a long tradition of piratical and privateering activity in addition to legitimate trade , which may well have laid the foundation for the activities of seamen from this part of the country in the Elizabethan age ( 63 , pp.159–60 ) . |
| 54 | It had been a long time living in a hole in the ground , let's hope things get better . |
| 55 | It had been a long time since we last saw one of those , so we bought ice cream , sat in the sun and wrote postcards at the Reykjahlid shop . |
| 56 | It had been a long hot day on the farm where I help my father with his large dairy herd . |
| 57 | It had been a long , slow journey from Odessa and although it was already 1am there were still many more official forms to fill out before their new life in Israel could begin . |
| 58 | It had been a long ride to an enclosure full of low single-storeyed huts of corrugated iron with cinder paths around , and all set in a large flat field of sparse greying grass . |
| 59 | By now , the negotiations had been a long and tedious process . |
| 60 | In a way , the revolution had been a long time coming and somewhat contained in America , despite the reactions of the mass media which had been — like all conservative America — horrified , if not titillated by the lurid images of beat youth . |