Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adv] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 2 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 3 | backing up , when I er , at , at the appeal , the medical centre made a very long presentation over the proximity , the closeness to their erm , surgery and they argued about the height of buildings , now it got passed as sheltered united , er , which means elderly and quiet occupancy . |
| 4 | It is a burden that Russia could do without , but at least it is far cheaper than maintaining an army of occupation in what Richard III might have called the very long winter of discontent . |
| 5 | This one came just as eyelids were beginning to droop at Tynecastle on Saturday when Hearts and Hibs staged the latest in what has become a very long series of tedious confrontations . |
| 6 | They had gone a very long way into the tunnel . |
| 7 | If nothing else , it has cast a mighty long shadow down the years . |