Example sentences of "has been [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , there is only one car that has been around long enough to have reached an affordable price on the secondhand market — the Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.8i . |
| 2 | This is neither essential nor necessarily healthy for , by now , Koi-keeping in this country has been around long enough to develop a culture all its own . |
| 3 | Only veteran Phil Carrick has been around long enough to tell them that 45-year-old Robinson was one of the hardest working and most likeable players ever to wear a Yorkshire cap . |
| 4 | While the delay to the start of the flying programme has been much longer than anyone would wish , much more progress has been made in the ground and rig testing than at the comparable stage of any previous project I have been associated with and we are very satisfied indeed with the results that have been obtained so far . |
| 5 | ‘ It has been so long , and this must be Perdita . ’ |
| 6 | treaty was actually signed and the process has been so long and er various people have been er As it were , knocked with the Danish referendum , the french referendum , and John Major 's had his own difficulties in getting through the house of commons . |