Example sentences of "[adv] long [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 2 | ‘ England is an island without sea , or else an island that used to be sea-bound , only so long ago that the sea 's now evaporated . ’ |
| 3 | School was so long ago that we had passed into each others ' mythology , like people who met distantly in another country . |
| 4 | But it was not so long ago that many leading Tories faulted it for being mismanaged , diffused , uncertain , failing to set the agenda ; in a word , bad . |
| 5 | Deborah Dean had been nicknamed Dimity so long ago that the reason for the diminutive had been lost in the mists of time . |
| 6 | The long-established Manx cat is certainly as abnormal as any of them , with its strangely abbreviated backbone and the problems this causes , but its presence at cat shows was accepted so long ago that nobody now objects to its inclusion . |
| 7 | A detective said : ‘ Some of the murders he says he committed so long ago that he has difficulty in remembering where the bodies are buried . |
| 8 | ‘ It was so long ago that I 've almost forgotten . |
| 9 | The CICB said the woman were abused so long ago that their cases had to be considered under the pre-1979 rules which excluded compensation for offences committed by relatives living under the same roof . |
| 10 | It was so long ago that it happened — it 's an everyday occurrence now , people battering and killing children . |
| 11 | They were great fiddlers of long ago it 's not so long ago that I mind there was five fiddlers in our kitchen in Dalvaine , just each coming with a just to have a night at the fiddle . |
| 12 | ‘ Did n't I tell you not so long ago that there was only one area of my life I could countenance sharing with you — and that purely out of necessity ? ’ |
| 13 | Well I , he lived at Stowmarket for years but then I heard not so long ago that they had moved to Ipswich but where I do n't know but they must be , whether he 's than I have now I do n't know either . |
| 14 | Well I heard not so long ago that they were going to either pull it down or |
| 15 | It is n't so long ago that the advocates of population control were being attacked not from the right but from the left . |
| 16 | ( submerged so long ago that the neighbours |
| 17 | It happened so long ago that it seems incredible that it is still affecting her . |
| 18 | It 's not so long ago that Kilmarnock were talking about wanting to go up as champions and look at them now . |
| 19 | This had been a fact of Lucy 's life for so long now that she 'd almost lost her sense of its shock value , but Josie was hit by it head-on and without warning . |
| 20 | All this time , all these years , I 've been lugging this weight around with me , for so long now that I 've forgotten what it 's like to be free of it . |
| 21 | It is not long ago that Mr Milken was being lionised as the greatest revitaliser of American business since J. Pierpont Morgan . |
| 22 | Well , practical purposes at this stage sir she maintains insufficient I 've no doubt the licensee will want to know a lot more about the situation , it 's very apparent it 's not long ago that they last ta transferred to their present holding . |
| 23 | It had a six-inch barrel , but a solid cylinder underneath it almost as long so that from the business end it looked like an over-and-under shotgun with the lower barrel blocked off . |
| 24 | How long ago that seemed ! |
| 25 | how long ago that was I do n't know . |
| 26 | After all , it was n't that long ago that it was quite acceptable to belch smoke over the countryside . |
| 27 | It was not all that long ago that you could see young men discreetly selling Bibles on the streets and they would melt away when the KGB , the enforcers of the atheist state , appeared . |
| 28 | It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years . |
| 29 | If I recall rightly I think that it 's not that long ago that the licence was transferred to the present holder . |
| 30 | It 's not that long ago that Scots worked through Christmas , including Christmas day . |