Example sentences of "been long " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all know how the week runs away with official interviews and calls , and how difficult it is to remember all the people with whom you ought to keep in touch , but when I think of the number of things which people of different types , like Lady Londonderry and Lady St Helier and others , have got settled by letting people meet at the dinner table , I despair of a man who never sees even those who have been longest in office on any occasion . |
| 2 | His short doze in the living room had been long enough to keep him awake now . |
| 3 | There had been long weeks when he lay sunk in gloom and introspection . |
| 4 | ‘ She 'd not been long in the village . |
| 5 | There had been long , bewildering visits from the school attendance officer , from the child welfare people , the police , a probation officer , the police again , a young wife with tears and an older one with a bread knife , and the police yet again . |
| 6 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 7 | Indeed , sometimes it is not very useful , as there may have been long periods without any clear artistic developments , such as the Roman empire of the fourth and fifth centuries or the early medieval period . |
| 8 | Vision moves to and fro between the vessels , setting up a visual and , if one has been long at sea , an emotional tension between them . |
| 9 | But then , city dwellers have never been long on modesty . |
| 10 | I had not been long in the restaurant car : ten minutes , the length of a cognac . |
| 11 | Learning by rote has been long out of fashion , but I loved reciting poetry , and can remember long poems learned when I was too young to understand the words , but just loved the sound of them . |
| 12 | K. M. On one occasion , there was a chap — not been long on the job — ex-Artilleryman . |
| 13 | Dr Kelleher had been working in close cooperation with Dr Laurent and there had been long consultations in the Pathology Lab . |
| 14 | It has been long and widely believed that urbanization and industrialization cause large increases in crime . |
| 15 | His marriage to a Spanish Roman Catholic , Catalina , has been long and happy . |
| 16 | The damage was double : the exposure to the flames had been long enough to cause severe burns to his face , head and hands ; worse , he had been forced , as the flames consumed the oxygen , to inhale volatile fuel and smoke , both of which critically affected his lungs and blood . |
| 17 | ‘ We do n't know how long he 's been dead , ’ murmured the Marshal , ‘ though it could n't have been long , he was n't … |
| 18 | Originally the Wabi and Public Windows Interface announcement were to be made separately , with Public Windows Interface slated for May 19 , and there were said to have been long discussions over the wisdom of fusing the two together . |
| 19 | They knew from their own and others ' research that there was a diminishing prospect for children returning home once they had been long in care . |
| 20 | After months of pursuing its quarry , it looks like IXI Ltd has finally nailed down the OEM agreement with DEC for its X.desktop manager that has been long in the making . |
| 21 | Emmanuel Levinas , for example , whose career has been long enough to have introduced Husserl to Sartre in the thirties and to have been able to reply to Derrida in the seventies , proposes a rather different critique of such models of knowledge to those which we have encountered so far . |
| 22 | For example , there have been long delays in hearing juvenile cases in some youth courts , where numbers of court appearances have doubled . |
| 23 | There had been long lines of farmers and farm workers on both sides . |
| 24 | There 's been long term sensory deprivation , so it 's not surprising . |
| 25 | Having been long pent up in town , Annie and myself viewed Southall as a second Paradise , and I remember I nearly hung myself on my pin-before the very first morning after our arrival , in attempting to scale the yard gates to see the country beyond them . |
| 26 | From his porch , Joseph watched with a sullen and rather bleary eye : the night had been long on reminiscence and several barrels had been tapped to celebrate old victories . |
| 27 | There have been long and fierce arguments , inside television , as to whether , when a play is ‘ directly based on a real-life case ’ , there should be further signals , indicating divergence from the expected norm . |
| 28 | It seems as though the period of separation has been long enough for genetic differences to appear within populations but not so long that reproductive barriers have developed . |
| 29 | They are usually quite a mixed group , some of whom have had bad experiences at school or have been long term truants . |
| 30 | My mother 's final illness had been long and painful for her and emotionally and physically demanding for me . |