Example sentences of "[be] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew , as I watched the miserable small boy with large shadowed eyes clamber into the boat , that it would be a long afternoon . |
| 2 | If he at last comes to the conclusion that he must stand firm next time , he will need an iron determination , for it will be a long tussle ( see page 60 ) |
| 3 | It wo n't be a long story … |
| 4 | I hoped it would be a long story . |
| 5 | This time it will be a long sleep , Cadfael . |
| 6 | This will depend on the parents ' working hours , but it can be a long day , possibly 8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.mm. , or even longer . |
| 7 | It was going to be a long day . |
| 8 | Freak ‘ I knew it was going to be a long day . |
| 9 | ‘ Going to be a long day , ’ said the Immigration man . |
| 10 | But it was going to be a long day … |
| 11 | Tomorrow will be a long day in the auction house with no room to move . |
| 12 | That 's gon na be a long day because the do n't get back until about six o'clock at night |
| 13 | It 'll be a long day for him wo n't it ? |
| 14 | ‘ It 's going to be a long night , ’ he said , and he turned to Creed , who had just walked into the room , and smiled . |
| 15 | He is drinking slowly , because it will be a long night , and rough cider usually comes out at about eight per cent alcohol , though nobody is measuring . |
| 16 | It was to be a long night . |
| 17 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 18 | Looks like it 's gon na be a long night . |
| 19 | ‘ It 'll be a long night , with much talk , and we must fortify ourselves beforehand as best we may … ’ |
| 20 | Anyway , we 'll take a cab , it 'll be a long night I expect . |
| 21 | It was going to be a long night . |
| 22 | Plus , you 'll er , you 'll have a , like a couple of drinks there , even if it 's Cokes or anything , but your you know , it 'll still be a long night . |
| 23 | Going to be a long journey I would think cos it 's an hour and a half from here to Scarborough on the bus . |
| 24 | Since each baboon interacts with many others , and since there may be a long delay between action and reciprocation , stability requires that a baboon should recognise individuals , and remember how each has behaved , or , at the very least , associate with each individual a positive or negative sign , depending on how it has behaved . |
| 25 | The parties may sometimes want the transfer to be effective from a date before the completion date , particularly if there is likely to be a long delay while consents are sought . |
| 26 | It would be a long while before he turned into one of the Elders , hiding away in a living death , nurturing their effete Dreams , too fastidious to get involved with the tumult of humanity . |
| 27 | No , but I thought you seemed to be a long while getting the bugger out . |
| 28 | Given these difficulties , implementing the White Paper is likely to be a long haul . |
| 29 | Although bankers seem to have some optimism , even members of the Reichmann family say the debt restructuring will be a long haul . |
| 30 | In any event , it will be a long haul for the Cape Verdian people to escape their poverty trap even if things go well . |