Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Father left me a bit and she thinks I went through that a long time ago . |
| 2 | Yeah we enjoy it but it 's just such a long drive |
| 3 | Brontosaurus was a more massive version of Diplodocus , with not such a long tail ( because of the extremely small head of the Brontosaurus in comparison with their huge bodies , the name was recently changed — unnecessarily — to Apatosaurus . |
| 4 | Nobody ever knew why , but it whiled away many a long afternoon . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's ever such a long way off , ’ said Dot . |
| 6 | But he said : ‘ We 're not getting carried away — there 's still such a long way to go . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Black people , although they 've been here such a long time , have n't assimilated into the business community , or education , as they have in America . |
| 8 | ‘ I used to go out on Sundays in London , sometimes to a brasserie in Covent Garden or to an ‘ olde Englishe ’ pub , and I 'd forgotten just how pleasant a long lunch can be . ’ |
| 9 | She had been teaching New Zealand , erm , not quite such a long training so she 's had three or four years ' experience . |
| 10 | Even a heartstopping pause just before ‘ Dieu parmi nous ’ ( also from La nativité ) breaks into dazzling Toccata ( at bar 59 , 5′35″ ) is not totally contradictory to the score — although I doubt whether any other organist would dare to keep us waiting for quite such a long time here . |