Example sentences of "was [art] very long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And there was a very long corridor with a mo what must have been I should think five , there was no sixth form , so there 'd be five classes , five classrooms off this long the hallway perhaps as wide as this room which is what thirteen feet .
2 Timmy the catcher mouse was a very long name for a very little cat so everyone called him Tim .
3 There was a very long story about him and Donald in the Rose and Thorn , a short , rather vulgar anecdote about something that had happened to Donald 's wife while crossing Wimbledon Common and a boastful piece about how he , Henry , had amused some French sailors in the bar at the Mini Golf , Boulogne sur Mer .
4 It seems apparent that this was a very long process in the Sussex area ; some scholars have argued that the Germanic groups stayed much more distinct for far longer than their counterparts elsewhere in the new England .
5 There was a very long gap of years between the mass petitioning of 1792 and that of 1823–4 with the single exception of the 1814 campaign against the reopening of the French slave trade after the war .
6 The Opposition replied , ’ That was 10 years ago ’ , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Teignbridge ( Mr. Nicholls ) , whom I commend for this observation , said , that 10 years was a very long time for the Leader of the Opposition and 10 minutes was about the average length of every policy that he had put forward .
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