Example sentences of "been [adv] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | His father 's been dead a long time and he has-had — two brothers . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I only took a quick look , he 'd been dead a long time , it was n't nice , and yet — it looked like Uncle Mosse . ’ |
| 3 | THE gap between Absolute Beginners and Earth Girls Are Easy seems to have been rather a long one . |
| 4 | At least I do n't mean that — not a good show for you , I know — but frankly when you 've been down a long time it is a good show to see someone from home and get all the news . |
| 5 | We 've been together a long time and people in the band like Paul and Mark and Gaz have a few things to prove themselves . |
| 6 | " We 've been together a long time Her voice went thick and inarticulate . |
| 7 | And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June . |
| 8 | You 've been away a long time have n't you ? |
| 9 | After an early phase of rapid growth initiated by enterprising , indigenous farmers and leading to an increasingly capitalist social structure , by 1939 the Ghanaian cocoa industry had entered what has been generally a long decline accompanied by reduced employment of wage-labour . |
| 10 | You see , these up here 's been up a long time . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've been out a long while already . |
| 12 | They 've been out a long time colleagues , seventeen weeks . |
| 13 | ‘ I been here a long time . |
| 14 | I have been here a long time . |
| 15 | She 's been here a long time , of course , from Father Collins 's days . |
| 16 | ‘ Been here a long time — ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You 've been here a long while , have n't you , Raech ? |
| 18 | ‘ You have been here a long time , masters . |
| 19 | So they 've been here a long long while . |
| 20 | ‘ She has been here a long time and will be here for even longer , ’ Felipe answered smoothly . |
| 21 | No I 've been I 've been here a long time like |
| 22 | She 's been here a long time , about ten years . |
| 23 | She 's been here a long time , on and off , she knows the place well . |
| 24 | This siter has been here a long time and is part of the area . |
| 25 | Because the common holly , Ilex aquifolium , has been around a long time and produced many ornamental varieties , you will find quite a few with fancy botanical names . |
| 26 | He is also much younger , 23 , than I thought — he seemed to have been around a long time . |
| 27 | Paul 's verdict : Bags have been around a long time now and Rohan can justifiably claim to have prompted other companies to come up with versions of their original . |
| 28 | Work by Dolores Piperno , at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama , shows that maize has indeed been around a long time . |
| 29 | And , of course , having been around a long time . |
| 30 | But as I 've already mentioned distributed database theory has been around a long time . |