Example sentences of "been [prep] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long . |
| 2 | As for people in Leeds being sick of the Manc hype , people in Manchester are sick of the Manc hype and have been for as long as people from Leeds have been tramping across the moors in their flares and Kickers to buy ‘ God created Manchester ’ tops and to dance at the Haçienda . |
| 3 | It is in the system and has been for as long as I can recall . |
| 4 | ‘ Sir Ralph Grunte , and has been for as long as I can remember . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm not calling the Labour party , I 'm calling the man , that he 's been in too long ! |
| 6 | Then the , the Assistant Secretary for Education was erm a very interesting chap erm he was a Mr A O D and erm he was , he had erm an elementary school background , he had n't a degree or any qualification but he 'd been in so long that er he 'd worked his way up to erm , s erm to Assistant Secretary for Education and he was a jolly chap and erm and he produced a , a dictionary of erm , of the Suffolk dialect which has became quite erm , quite a classic work really |
| 7 | And , that chap that lives two below Mrs , they have n't been in very long with |
| 8 | ‘ Even I know man has n't been around that long . ’ |
| 9 | A final technique is known as ‘ Noah 's Ark ’ — because it 's been around that long ! |