Example sentences of "would [verb] been [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Oh it would have been a long while after the war yes .
2 Whitaker also had Gammon entered in the World Cup final but , as his wife Claire said yesterday : ‘ It would have been a long way to go with just one horse .
3 ‘ That was the turning point — had I gone 2-1 down it would have been a long way back ’ said the Ayrshire man later .
4 It would have been a long story , the warming of friendship and respect between the barrel-chested Iraqi Colonel and the young man from England who had proved he could stalk and kill .
5 It would have been a long walk to here , and no doubt some other person would have been offering a dubious lift by the time she arrived .
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