Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 'd been ill a long time . |
| 2 | I must have been unconscious a long time . |
| 3 | Or perhaps it had been clear a long time before that . |
| 4 | Jackets that had been second-hand a long time ago , trousers the same . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've been asleep a long time . ’ |
| 6 | That is , in addition to the tendency to feel tired because we have been awake a long time , there is some rhythmic change that decreases our fatigue at some times and increases it at others . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been patient a long time , nonya . ’ |