Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | At each stage the vested interests — of protected tenants , of council tenants , and of local and national politicians — in the system , grew stronger and more complex , so that the wonder is not that it lived so long but that two men were found at last , in Duncan Sandys and Henry Brooke , of sufficient courage and determination to lay the axe to the roots and start hewing a way back to sanity . |
| 2 | It has exceptionally long barbels and , when kept in confined spaces where it can not move these appendages freely , it will often take fright and dash around the aquarium , causing considerable damage not only to the tank decor , but to itself in extreme cases the fish has been known to leap from the tank . |
| 3 | It has exceptionally long barbels and , when kept in confined spaces where it can not move these appendages freely , it will often take fright and dash around the aquarium , causing considerable damage not only to the tank decor , but to itself . |
| 4 | It was over a year ago but it seemed even longer . |
| 5 | It was less than seventy-two hours since he had heard of the finding of Riddle 's clothes , but it seemed much longer . |
| 6 | It was less than a year ago , though it seemed far longer , that they had kept each other company at Ockham House during the long bleak hours it had taken Mary Ladram to die . |
| 7 | So much had happened since — the Marilyn Duxbody fiasco , the Hatherley trip , Pascoe 's death — that it seemed far longer . |
| 8 | His mother thought it was beautiful to behold and took a delight in allowing it to grow extra long . |
| 9 | It gets very long and involved . |
| 10 | It takes too long to set up and the shutter speed is so slow . |
| 11 | It takes too long to set up and the shutter speed is slow . |
| 12 | Traditionally some vendors oppose asset sales on the basis that it takes too long to obtain the landlord 's consent and the long delay between exchange and completion causes uncertainty for the business . |
| 13 | it takes too long to follow a human birth cohort through life — the information is of little interest at the end of such an exercise |
| 14 | Oh well we 'll forget about the six to start with it takes too long . |
| 15 | It would not be statute law in the first instance , since it takes so long to get proposed statutes passed into law . |
| 16 | It is not worthwhile to permanently masquerade as the dominant strategy type , because it takes so long to acquire such a reputation . |
| 17 | It takes so long to get off ! |
| 18 | It takes so long . |
| 19 | I know it takes so long . |
| 20 | It takes so , it takes so long to do everything you see . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , no , ’ Mr Hockney said , ‘ it takes that long to reach ecstasy . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But if it takes that long to sort things out I 'd like to be playing for Sunderland . |
| 23 | Cos I heard it takes as long . |
| 24 | I think it spoils it for children it makes them it seems too long for them they 're looking forward to Christmas . |
| 25 | It felt much longer . |
| 26 | And the water hammered down , and washed her and washed her , and why was it taking so long to make her clean ? |
| 27 | His account of it took rather longer but has now been published under the title ‘ Irish Shores : A Journey Round The Rim of Ireland ’ ( Greystone Books , £5.95 ) . |
| 28 | But from ninety one ninety two onwards a married woman was entitled to an allowance in her own right , and it still mystifies me knowing Mrs Thatcher was in office for all those years , why it took so long for this to happen , . |
| 29 | Hooray it took so long to get that sorted as well . |
| 30 | ‘ It took that long for the Cell to find this planet . ’ |