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 .
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