Example sentences of "be [det] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been such a long time . |
| 2 | I do n't know whether I ever meant to call on Ben or not — it 's been such a long time — but I was interested to see the boat . |
| 3 | ‘ It has been such a long time ! |
| 4 | ‘ It 's been such a long time , and I want you so much that I could easily make a mess of this , ’ he confessed . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's been such a long time since you 've seen him . |
| 6 | It 's been such a long time , too long … ’ |
| 7 | And it had all been such a long time ago ! |
| 8 | He said : ‘ It has been such a long time coming I had almost given up hope . |
| 9 | I 'd like to know why that day is such a long time coming . |
| 10 | I did try and help her about how to run a war because it 's such a long time since anybody 's run a war — I mean the technical methods of running a war — which she did very well . |
| 11 | But as you said , Harri , it 's such a long time ago . |
| 12 | It 's all a long time ago and I 've been married to him for thirty-nine years . |
| 13 | It 's all a long time ago now of course . |
| 14 | Not because she could n't remember , but because it was such a long time since she 'd seen her and she felt strange , suddenly , knowing that this time tomorrow they would be on their way to Scotland and she would be waiting for them . |
| 15 | This element of the second stanza creates a sensation that Tithonus now refers to himself as a completely different man to what he was in his youth as it was such a long time ago . |
| 16 | ‘ That was all a long time ago now . ’ |
| 17 | It was all a long time , such a very long time , ago . |
| 18 | But that was all a long time ago , was n't it ? |
| 19 | As I told you that was all a long time ago . |
| 20 | ‘ It is none of my affair and , besides , it was all a long time ago . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , well … that was all a long time ago , ’ Laura said firmly . |
| 22 | ‘ Sometimes I sang with Lingdale Silver Band , ’ she says , ‘ but it was all a long time ago . ’ |