Example sentences of "this be [verb] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | This is taking a long time . |
| 2 | This is taking a long time . |
| 3 | But this is looking a long way ahead . |
| 4 | No , this was done a long while ago , |
| 5 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |