Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the seeds had been sown in my mind — they just took a long time to grow ! |
| 2 | The University of Utah team made it clear that they still had a long way to go and would like another year to eighteen months to continue their research before announcing it . |
| 3 | In 1926 , on any economic criterion , they still had a long way to go , when , pacified by the placebos of the previous year , they claimed a moral victory , and vanished into the archives of oblivion . |
| 4 | From their point of view they still had a long way to go in rescuing their past . |
| 5 | Richard Spindler and Julia Verity know they still have a long way to go . |
| 6 | Britons join pasta set BRITONS are eating more pasta than ever before but they still have a long way to go to match their continental neighbours , according to a survey by pasta makers Buitoni . |
| 7 | do they usually take a long while |
| 8 | The earliest cephalopods found as fossils are nautiloids and they also have the longest history , because the living pearly Nautilus belongs to the same group . |
| 9 | ‘ They often take a long time . |