Example sentences of "it was a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a long jump competition where the athletes did themselves no favours at all by carrying weights . |
| 2 | It was a long document which took about forty minutes to read and it was not greeted with warm enthusiasm . |
| 3 | It was a long document ( as one speaker remarked , there was a danger it would grow so long that no one would read it ) , but after only two days of discussion the fathers voted overwhelmingly to accept the draft as the basis for the final document and went on to debate it section by section . |
| 4 | When the names and numbers were read out it was a long while before we heard the name of Deerhurst . |
| 5 | It was a long while before Mary could forgive her husband 's infidelity , and she had never seen or spoken to her sister since then . |
| 6 | It was a long while since she had heard Con laugh like that ; lately , he never seemed to find much to laugh at . |
| 7 | It was a long while since she had visited her old home , and longer still since she had lived there as a girl . |
| 8 | It was a long while before I could even change her nappy , and putting clothes on , you had to disconnect all the wires , put the clothes on and put them all back . |
| 9 | It was a long while before John got to sleep that night . |
| 10 | When I did go to sleep , I went I do n't remember but it was a long while . |
| 11 | Yeah yeah I went , well eventually but like you say it was long wh it was a long while before I actually did get to sleep but got there eventually I 'm been to solicitor today Annie . |
| 12 | It was a long lunch in the presence of our new-found friend , the Rugby World Cup . |
| 13 | ‘ It was a long night 's work wasted . ’ |
| 14 | It was a long night , and one Creggan never forgot . |
| 15 | He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed . |
| 16 | It was a long pull up the hill , and I felt more like doing a roly-poly down it . |
| 17 | It was a long knife . |
| 18 | He tried re-dialling two or three times , but either it was a long conversation or he could n't time it right to slip in between calls . |
| 19 | These workmen , of course , all had to walk to work , and with a six o'clock start and 6 pm finish , it was a long day . |
| 20 | It was a long day . |
| 21 | It was a long day . |
| 22 | It was a long day you know . |
| 23 | The end of year deadline for eradication of asbestos-contaminated rolling stock , agreed many years ago between BR and the unions , was quietly and mutually forgotten when it was realised it was a long way from being achieved unless services were decimated . |
| 24 | Singapore , however , had one military drawback : it was a long way from the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf . |
| 25 | Along the main road , though lit , it was a long way ; across the seemingly vast open field , pitch dark , might lie rape , and murder , or freezing to death . |
| 26 | It was a long way home via Shearbridge Road . |
| 27 | It was a long way down . ’ |
| 28 | It was a long way down . |
| 29 | It was a long way from Brewer Street . |
| 30 | ‘ It was a long way carrying the baby . ‘ |