Example sentences of "[vb pp] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Another super-domestique of great experience is Sean Yates from Sussex , who has won a long time trial stage in the tour . |
| 3 | What is more , much of government expenditure is committed a long time in advance and can not easily be cut . |
| 4 | Over 900 of them said : ‘ It should have come a long time ago — very few people have done more for charity , public service and their Party than you have ’ . |
| 5 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 6 | For instance , a workman may be injured by a chip of metal flying off a hammer which had been negligently manufactured a long time before . |
| 7 | It was decided a long time ago and the waiting is over . ’ |
| 8 | Some conversions that were done a long time ago would not pass today 's stringent building regulations . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 10 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 11 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 12 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 13 | Yes , Dutch , yes , no not as I say , not far away , that was Deut the first the first one we heard was Deutscheland , and that was the Dutch one , that 's the Netherlands one , erm , written a long time ago , written in the sixteenth century , written as a piece of music , erm , the tune , apparently very very old indeed , erm , and Mozart took the tune , and made variations on it , which is perhaps why it sounds familiar , you 've probably heard it somewhere else . |
| 14 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 15 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 16 | The comments above by Sisam ( 1915 ) and Hall ( 1920 ) arise directly from Skeats 's views , and , although these comments were made a long time ago , it would be a mistake to think that the Anglo-Norman argument has now been abandoned . |
| 17 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 18 | These points were made a long time ago by Kahn-Freund in ( 1940–1 ) 4 MLR 221 , but have never been satisfactorily answered . |
| 19 | St Catherine 's Dock was busy as a Hogarth etching and smelt as if something should have been quietly buried a long time ago . |
| 20 | I have thought a long time about this and I think I know the answer . |
| 21 | And thoughts that were thought a long time ago are as dead as old Squeez-Ee detergent bottles , and as slow to biodegrade . |
| 22 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |
| 23 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |
| 24 | I know he 's had a long time out with injury but he must be all right now or he would n't be playing . ’ |
| 25 | After all , they have had a long time to become used to them . |
| 26 | I mean I 'll be upset about our Whisky , 'cos we 're , I mean , we 've had a long time , although she 's not a pet pet , you know what I mean . |
| 27 | They 've had a long time to crack a lot of these problems pardon |
| 28 | He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’ |
| 29 | The estate was sold a long time ago to the Dukes of Devonshire and was tenanted at one time by the Reverend Thomas Fosbroke , the celebrated antiquary . |
| 30 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |