Example sentences of "be [prep] a [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously these policies are not for three months , three thousand miles , they are for a much longer period than that , and obviously if people do have problems then that 's what we 're here for . |
| 2 | I think that ha has to be in on if you 're on a slightly longer course than that a day you |
| 3 | ‘ If it should rain , it 's not going to be for a very long time . ’ |
| 4 | This is by a very long way the smallest proportion in the western industrialised world of any country in Europe or North America . |
| 5 | On the other hand , it was for a very long time the only kind of popular medical and natural science handbook which was available to laypeople , who possessed little knowledge of such matters other than their own experiences and the tales of other . |