Example sentences of "[adv] a long time " in BNC.

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1 She miss you velly much a long time .
2 At least I do n't mean that — not a good show for you , I know — but frankly when you 've been down a long time it is a good show to see someone from home and get all the news .
3 They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story .
4 " He should have done so a long time ago .
5 Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out .
6 We 've been together a long time and people in the band like Paul and Mark and Gaz have a few things to prove themselves .
7 " We 've been together a long time Her voice went thick and inarticulate .
8 ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’
9 ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly .
10 And maybe , she thought , if I 'm lucky he 'll be away a long time and I 'll meet an interesting man .
11 She was away a long time .
12 ‘ You were away a long time , ’ said Pip .
13 And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June .
14 You 've been away a long time have n't you ?
15 The CEGB would perhaps be more fully convincing in its argument on fuel diversity if it could show that it had more real commitment to the development and use over a long time scale of renewable-energy technologies .
16 He moved over a long time ago from playing an SG Standard and an ES-345 when he found his beloved fixed-bridge ‘ 64 Stratocaster , which is standard apart from an extra treble-boost toggle switch .
17 However , this does not persist over a long time scale and is often not to be observed at all .
18 Such connections are occasionally recognised in orthodox medicine where there is not a long time delay between one complaint developing and the next , though the significance of the link between diseases is frequently missed .
19 Two weeks is not a long time especially as social workers have many competing claims on their time .
20 Three weeks is not a long time to debate a Bill , but the number of hours that we can devote to the Bill during that period will be perfectly adequate .
21 And she used to go with the district nurses a lot to er to treat different people specially a long time I remember erm a young man erm h he had er I think it was cerebral palsy he had and er he was so fed up with himself he threw paraffin over himself and er set light you know on the top of the stairs and threw himself down .
22 The majority of women , however , will probably have left parents and home a long time before , and spent many of their subsequent years caring for children and a partner , running the home and having a job too .
23 His father 's been dead a long time and he has-had — two brothers . ’
24 ‘ I only took a quick look , he 'd been dead a long time , it was n't nice , and yet — it looked like Uncle Mosse . ’
25 Oh I thought he was dead a long time ago .
26 Rattling in the chest ; every cold goes to the chest or nose and the catarrh hangs on a long time .
27 Fergus laughed rather a long time at this , and said tersely , ‘ I should . ’
28 It 's just going to take rather a long time making them admit it . ’
29 You take rather a long time sometimes to find something that fits in but you do in the end . ’
30 The pope did not send him a pallium until June 634 and , given the long-standing papal concern with the well-being of the church of Canterbury , a three-year interval between Honorius ' appointment and the sending of a pallium would seem to be rather a long time .
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