Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew someone of that name a long time ago . |
| 2 | They 've got a fine album and a string of great singles a long way behind them , but the Demonz have yet to have the mass market fawning at their feet , unless you count their brief appearance in the video for ‘ The Bouncer ’ . |
| 3 | This seems to indicate that the rock was of sacred significance a long time before Augustine visited . |
| 4 | The princess told them : ‘ I have come to terms with this relationship a long time ago . |
| 5 | ‘ I have lived in this world a long time , child . |
| 6 | ‘ It grows on the top of very tall trees in wet forests a long way away , and little frogs spend their whole lives in it . |
| 7 | We 've been out on this balcony a long time , and no one has come to interrupt us . |
| 8 | That 's it ; except Nina stopped looking for any knight a long time ago . ’ |
| 9 | Indeed , an original idea suggested informally by several people a long time ago was that there could be a two-day preliminary meeting , and then a two-day summit of the European Council . |