Example sentences of "[be] not a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , because everybody everybody from Mexico , right down to the er to the tip of South America , for example , er speak one dialect or another of er of er of of of of Spain , of the Spanish language , and large areas of er of er the Indes you see , er and Italian is not a long way from it , you see , so er er er it it on the surface it may seem to have have been difficult , but the er you know there we we we did get by . |
| 2 | Gradually , countries are coming to their senses and realising that non-stop exploitation of rainforest resources is not a long term answer to poverty . |
| 3 | Your son has suffered a terrible loss — six months is not a long period of time to get over such a trauma . |
| 4 | Such connections are occasionally recognised in orthodox medicine where there is not a long time delay between one complaint developing and the next , though the significance of the link between diseases is frequently missed . |
| 5 | Two weeks is not a long time especially as social workers have many competing claims on their time . |
| 6 | Three weeks is not a long time to debate a Bill , but the number of hours that we can devote to the Bill during that period will be perfectly adequate . |
| 7 | It 's not a , it 's not a long journey either from Queensbury to Morecambe is it ? |
| 8 | It 's not a long story . |
| 9 | That 's not a long hop , that 's a googly . |
| 10 | It 's not a long course , but it will examine every aspect of technique with every club in the bag . |
| 11 | It was not a long telephone call . |
| 12 | It was not a long journey and as the sun was shining it was a very pleasant one . |
| 13 | It was not a long letter , written in an old-fashioned copperplate hand . |