Example sentences of "have [been] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been a long time since the women 's game has been so open ; hopefully it will continue . |
| 2 | Since then there has been a long decline . |
| 3 | It has been a long day , but there are still a couple of hours to run , and this is Berlin , where anything can happen . |
| 4 | Everyone is contemplating an early night — it has been a long day , one of the busiest for a while . |
| 5 | Mr Peter Preston , editor of the Guardian , yesterday said : ‘ This has been a long time coming and there are things in it like the enhanced role for proprietors that I 'm not very keen on , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Recently there has been a long ambulance drivers ' strike . |
| 7 | Seagram , last year 's winner , has been a long way behind that excellence this season , as has Bonanza Boy , the 1991 favourite , whose desertion by Peter Scudamore was clearly influenced by the drying conditions . |
| 8 | There has been a long debate as to whether Severn Mill was operated as a tide mill , the general opinion now seeming to favour this idea . |
| 9 | There has been a long tradition of professional marketing activities by a wide spectrum of non-profit making organisations including political parties , the Health Education Council with its anti-smoking campaign , the Right to Read programme , Oxfam , Christian Aid and the Salvation Army . |
| 10 | I thought I would go home when I left but it has been a long time . |
| 11 | There has been a long , ongoing battle between alternative medical practice and orthodox medicine — with the establishment maintaining the upper hand . |
| 12 | It has been a long time . |
| 13 | It has been a long and widely held assumption that crime is very much more frequent among those of low social status . |
| 14 | Most of this is in the northwest where there has been a long history of land-use , involving both degradation and successful reclamation . |
| 15 | This is a very beautiful music , serene , noble , discreet , poignant , composed , grief-stricken , understated , sublime — it has been a long time since I discovered anything quite so touching . |
| 16 | Gooch 's biography has been a long time coming but Ivo Tennant has been thorough in his survey of hitherto uncharted waters , and the wait has been worthwhile . |
| 17 | But Boogie 's TriAxis has been a long time coming , and there are great expectations to live up to … |
| 18 | There has been a long resistance to accepting that , in spite of the logical stringency with which laws in science are formulated , interrelated and tested , their origin has never ceased to be the same . |
| 19 | It has been a long and winding road for the much-travelled Quinn to achieve fully-fledged Premier League status , even though his career record is better than a goal every two games . |
| 20 | With more and more database engines sitting on networked servers , it has been a long time coming — the tricky bit , says Shandell is implementing ‘ remote queue pointers ’ . |
| 21 | To a few of us it may seem like only yesterday , but to the Princess , I suspect , it has been a long decade , for she has completed a most extraordinary metamorphosis . |
| 22 | This has been a long chapter on the work of the Spirit in the individual Christian . |
| 23 | It has been a long time coming , and apparently impatient fans bombard the Pan press office weekly for information on its appearance . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't usually do that , but it has been a long day . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It has been a long time , Warren , ’ she said evenly . |
| 26 | ‘ It has been a long hard season for Nigel , and obviously he 'll be a little bit down after what happened at Wembley , ’ said Bingham . |
| 27 | Being the sinless character that I am , my quest for a sin has been a long and arduous task ( which started five minutes ago ) . |
| 28 | This partnership with City and Guilds is the latest collaboration in what has been a long and fuitgul relationship . |
| 29 | There has been a long and fruitful interplay between the two branches : Pure Mathematics develops methods used in Applied Mathematics ; Applied Mathematics has in turn raised problems which have ultimately led to the creation of whole areas of Pure Mathematics . |
| 30 | Even the products division which has been a long time drag on profitability improved its performance , and was well up too . |