Example sentences of "[adv] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She miss you velly much a long time . |
| 2 | They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story . |
| 3 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 4 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | " We 've been together a long time Her voice went thick and inarticulate . |
| 7 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 9 | And maybe , she thought , if I 'm lucky he 'll be away a long time and I 'll meet an interesting man . |
| 10 | She was away a long time . |
| 11 | ‘ You were away a long time , ’ said Pip . |
| 12 | And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June . |
| 13 | You 've been away a long time have n't you ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His father 's been dead a long time and he has-had — two brothers . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Oh I thought he was dead a long time ago . |
| 19 | Fergus laughed rather a long time at this , and said tersely , ‘ I should . ’ |
| 20 | It 's just going to take rather a long time making them admit it . ’ |
| 21 | You take rather a long time sometimes to find something that fits in but you do in the end . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Three years , I admit , is rather a long time . |
| 24 | But she was aware that she had been preoccupied a lot of the time , all too aware of the mountain of work before her , and that it was rather a long time since she and her daughter had had any special outings together . |
| 25 | Six years alone is rather a long time . ’ |
| 26 | Sorry to have taken rather a long time to reply but Andrew was in transit back to and around Italy . |
| 27 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 28 | Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’ |
| 29 | It took Corps rather a long time to adjust , I believe . |
| 30 | It will , I suspect , be rather a long time before historians adopt SGML-authoring software as their own . |