Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] a long time " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
2 | It 's just going to take rather a long time making them admit it . ’ |
3 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
4 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
5 | And er then it seems to keep quite a long time if er if you do that . |
6 | This is where some fault or other has manifested itself sufficiently to affect the flight , though the critical event might have happened quite a long time before and been ‘ cooking up ’ until the divergence took place . |
7 | Sorry to have taken rather a long time to reply but Andrew was in transit back to and around Italy . |
8 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
9 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
10 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
11 | They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place |
12 | ‘ We have to give those who have lived here a long time the right to become German citizens , ’ Johannes Gerster , deputy leader of the CDU parliamentary group , said at the weekend . |