Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Level 3 Know that some life forms became extinct a long time ago and others more recently . |
| 2 | MIND realised this a long time ago . |
| 3 | It was very good of you to write such a long letter , and I was most interested in what you told me . |
| 4 | Having come such a long way it is a pity that the story ends in 1900 , without discussing the alleged takeover of chemistry by modern physics . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh dear , ’ said Fenella , ‘ and we 've come such a long way . ’ |
| 6 | No other industry has such a long history of coming up with environment-friendly selling points that are profit-friendly too . |
| 7 | I ask him why he did it he said oh well he has such a long name such a very long name spoils the picture |
| 8 | It is not clear why this species has such a long period of amplexus ; it is not an explosive breeder . |
| 9 | Although the reach of the top horn only extends as far as the 14th fret ( which could spell balance problems given such a long neck ) the body does have a pronounced lower bout , with the face-mounted bridge situated quite well back ; this relocated mass helps to preclude potential neck-heaviness . |
| 10 | While you are contracted for a West End show , it is very irresponsible to go such a long way . |
| 11 | That they did not do and now the leader of the council said well they 're trying to get down to the standard spending assessment at last , he could have done that a long time ago , you have had nothing but excess expenditure proposals on behalf of this city for many , many years . |
| 12 | Myra 's familiar voice made her want to cry ; it seemed such a long time since things had been normal , with nothing more exciting than new orders to think about . |
| 13 | gosh you 've had that a long time |
| 14 | You are wicked , going such a long way all alone ! |
| 15 | Well you see , what Freud had to explain here was how he could have had such a long dream when the dreamer reported that he woke up more or less instantly from the stimulus of something hitting him on the back of the neck . |
| 16 | ‘ I mean , Delia , we 've had such a long association and a successful one , I 'd like to think , well , I do n't want to just lose touch . ’ |
| 17 | They say that , as the wars happened such a long time ago we should simply forget about them now . |
| 18 | He spent such a long time alone in consultation with her daughter that Harriet began to wonder whether his efforts at consolation were entirely professional . |
| 19 | For example , the extensive list of qualifications and caveats which Marshall appended to his exposition of the quantity theory of money had threatened to cast such a long shadow over its validity that Marshall appeared to take freight and retarait behind the ceteris paribus stipulation which so typified his approach to economics . |
| 20 | It takes such a long time to use up a tin , you probably would n't realise . |
| 21 | ‘ With having such a long time off , I 've lost a lot of speed but the endurance is still there , which of course is the key for anyone on the ultra scene . |
| 22 | John 's firm having been established for nearly forty years by this time , the rival Lawrence Girls were definitely more earthy in character , with not a snob amongst them possibly because they did not have such a long tradition . |
| 23 | Other species may not have such a long store of seed in the soil but would soon come back if left uncontrolled for a few years . |
| 24 | Why did you have such a long break doing nothing ? |
| 25 | Taking this a long step further , André Cassagnes ( France ) has his own special polyester fittings moulded by a friend M.Minot . |
| 26 | He took such a long time to answer that she became convinced that he had n't . |
| 27 | Why did not local authorities do that a long time ago ? |
| 28 | They ca n't afford such a long delay or they will become like Camel Laird , an extinct breed . |
| 29 | It did n't matter that it had taken such a long time . |
| 30 | Three years did n't seem such a long time when one of them had elapsed , and although Robyn was satisfied that she was highly valued by her colleagues , the talk at the University these days was all of further cuts , of tightening belts , deteriorating staff-student ratios . |