Example sentences of "a [adj] time since [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | It had been a long time since we last saw one of those , so we bought ice cream , sat in the sun and wrote postcards at the Reykjahlid shop . |
2 | It 's a long time since we did that . ’ |
3 | ‘ It seems a long time since we had a chance to talk alone . ’ |
4 | It seems a long time since we ate together in this kitchen . |
5 | It is a long time since we spoke , is n't it ? ’ |
6 | It seems a long time since we started , |
7 | ‘ It is a long time since we saw you here . ’ |
8 | It was a long time since they 'd done anything together . |
9 | It must be a long time since they were cleaned ; they are very dirty . |
10 | that 's a long time since they said we could have it . |
11 | But first of all I 'd like to congratulate the officers on the report er I 'm sure that those people who have been reading the reports and officers of the County Council for some years er will have probably er , er it 's been a long time since they 've read one that 's been expressed in such strong terms . |
12 | ‘ And a trip on the S-Bahn , it is a long time since I had one . ’ |
13 | ‘ It 's a long time since I was that — if I ever was . ’ |
14 | ‘ It 's a long time since I had any of those . ’ |
15 | ‘ It is a long time since I went outside . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | ‘ It 's a long time since I touched that organ . |
18 | It 's a long time since I 've had some first-class leather to work with . ’ |
19 | Because it 's a long time since I felt like this , as good as I do now . |
20 | It was a long time since I had helped to ring shear waters on Skokholm , another of the Pembrokeshire islands , and I wanted my children to see — and hear — the strange petrels . |
21 | It 's a long time since I saw you looking so well . |
22 | It is a long time since I dressed up . ’ |
23 | I can not get myself to react with critical coolness towards this music ; every tissue , every nerve vibrates in me and it is a long time since I had such an enduring feeling of rapture as when listening to the latter overture . " |
24 | It had been a long time since I — ’ He broke off . |
25 | ‘ It 's quite a long time since I made any . |
26 | It was a long time since I had bought a card to celebrate the arrival of a new baby . |
27 | I mean I I it 's a long time since I left it . |
28 | Now it 's a long time since I went by tube , and there 's not much you can do in the carriages except keep a handkerchief over your nose , but a useful tip is never to put your hand on the rail beside the moving staircase . |
29 | Erm I do n't think I have been down to that I think I 've sh erm wired the whole damn out of my mind because er it 's a long time since I heard such garbage in this chamber , it 's fortunate for us Chairman that Mr is n't a member of the Environment Committee because if that 's the kind of contribution that he 's prepared to make on these occasions we would could well do without it . |
30 | ‘ It is a long time since I have had so much excitement . ’ |