Example sentences of "seemed a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that , in 1957 , seemed a very long way off . |
| 2 | The two miles to Casterbridge seemed a very long way to the woman , who was tired and ill . |
| 3 | In some ways those days when she had lived in Paula 's shadow seemed a very long time ago , in others they might have been just yesterday . |
| 4 | It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost . |
| 5 | It seemed a very long time before he came back . |
| 6 | I waited , cold and tired , in his room for what seemed a very long time . |
| 7 | She talked to me for what seemed a very long time . |
| 8 | We stood there , all four of us , in silence for what seemed a very long time . |
| 9 | She waited what seemed an interminably long time before the same young maid again confronted her . |
| 10 | The annual camp for secondary schools Cadet Corps gave me my first holiday away from home , but I was so homesick that a fortnight seemed an impossibly long time before I could get back to my parents and family . |