Example sentences of "dead [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew the woman had been dead for a long time . |
| 2 | I think I have been dead for a long time now . |
| 3 | Ty Fach had been dead for a long time . |
| 4 | One day I shall lie beside that grave and the stone will say ‘ Angharad ’ and I shall have been dead for a long time . |
| 5 | I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me . |
| 6 | ‘ The spirits respect me ; I have had to do with the dead for a long time . ’ |