Example sentences of "[adv] a long time " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Three years , I admit , is rather a long time . |
| 32 | But she was aware that she had been preoccupied a lot of the time , all too aware of the mountain of work before her , and that it was rather a long time since she and her daughter had had any special outings together . |
| 33 | Six years alone is rather a long time . ’ |
| 34 | Sorry to have taken rather a long time to reply but Andrew was in transit back to and around Italy . |
| 35 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 36 | Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’ |
| 37 | It took Corps rather a long time to adjust , I believe . |
| 38 | It will , I suspect , be rather a long time before historians adopt SGML-authoring software as their own . |
| 39 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 40 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 41 | It 's rather a long time is n't it ? |
| 42 | No that 's not I just thought to change a wash , cos I think they 've been on there rather a long time . |
| 43 | There had been windows on the westerly side of the school , but they appeared to have been built up a long time , judging from the appearance of the workmanship on the outside . |
| 44 | Your husband probably senses that you do n't admire or respect him and he obviously does n't trust you , which is why he pulled the drawbridge up a long time ago . |
| 45 | You see , these up here 's been up a long time . |
| 46 | They 've been out a long time colleagues , seventeen weeks . |
| 47 | It always pays to stick as closely to the truth as possible , I found that out a long time ago . |
| 48 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 49 | This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy . |
| 50 | Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think . |
| 51 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |
| 52 | well that 's going back a long time , is n't it ? |
| 53 | But we do talk and what I know is you are essentially a decent and totally wonderful human being and I 'll hang around a long time for you . |
| 54 | But the Inter City Firm from West Ham were around a long time before the Service Crew . |
| 55 | Because the common holly , Ilex aquifolium , has been around a long time and produced many ornamental varieties , you will find quite a few with fancy botanical names . |
| 56 | He is also much younger , 23 , than I thought — he seemed to have been around a long time . |
| 57 | Paul 's verdict : Bags have been around a long time now and Rohan can justifiably claim to have prompted other companies to come up with versions of their original . |
| 58 | Work by Dolores Piperno , at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama , shows that maize has indeed been around a long time . |
| 59 | And , of course , having been around a long time . |
| 60 | But as I 've already mentioned distributed database theory has been around a long time . |