Example sentences of "[verb] been a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been a long time since the women 's game has been so open ; hopefully it will continue . |
| 2 | Mr Peter Preston , editor of the Guardian , yesterday said : ‘ This has been a long time coming and there are things in it like the enhanced role for proprietors that I 'm not very keen on , ’ he said . |
| 3 | I thought I would go home when I left but it has been a long time . |
| 4 | It has been a long time . |
| 5 | This is a very beautiful music , serene , noble , discreet , poignant , composed , grief-stricken , understated , sublime — it has been a long time since I discovered anything quite so touching . |
| 6 | Gooch 's biography has been a long time coming but Ivo Tennant has been thorough in his survey of hitherto uncharted waters , and the wait has been worthwhile . |
| 7 | But Boogie 's TriAxis has been a long time coming , and there are great expectations to live up to … |
| 8 | With more and more database engines sitting on networked servers , it has been a long time coming — the tricky bit , says Shandell is implementing ‘ remote queue pointers ’ . |
| 9 | It has been a long time coming , and apparently impatient fans bombard the Pan press office weekly for information on its appearance . |
| 10 | ‘ It has been a long time , Warren , ’ she said evenly . |
| 11 | Even the products division which has been a long time drag on profitability improved its performance , and was well up too . |
| 12 | and that has been a long time coming but it now appears to be |
| 13 | ‘ Well , it has been a long time , and I expect you and Marissa … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Well , ’ she taunted foolishly , ‘ it has been a long time . ’ |
| 15 | It must have been a long time ago . |
| 16 | Appointed a Privy Counsellor two years ago , his promotion seems to have been a long time coming , prompting some commentators to dub him ‘ The Nearly Man ’ . |
| 17 | It had been a long time living in a hole in the ground , let's hope things get better . |
| 18 | It had been a long time since we last saw one of those , so we bought ice cream , sat in the sun and wrote postcards at the Reykjahlid shop . |
| 19 | In a way , the revolution had been a long time coming and somewhat contained in America , despite the reactions of the mass media which had been — like all conservative America — horrified , if not titillated by the lurid images of beat youth . |
| 20 | It had been a long time since he had felt like that . |
| 21 | Maybe because tonight the warning had been a long time sounding , had started its tormented wailing just when everyone began to think the bombers were n't coming . |
| 22 | It was a dream , it had been a long time since Hari had seen her mother smile for the death of her husband had knocked all the spirit out of Win Morgan . |
| 23 | Because of the ancient feud with the Dwarfs , it had been a long time since any High Elf had set foot on the Old World . |
| 24 | It had been a long time since anyone had enjoyed rubbing cream into her back . |
| 25 | She reached for her silk dressing gown and pulled it on ; she felt good , it had been a long time since she had awoken feeling so alive . |
| 26 | It had been a long time since she had had to stop herself simply blowing away an enemy that she found herself unable to either maim or restrain . |
| 27 | There had been a long time when he had been surrounded by wire and bars . |
| 28 | It was for a party in one of the upstairs rooms , but it had been a long time ago . |
| 29 | She did not know what sort of oddness to imagine , but they had been a long time and there had been peculiar noises . |
| 30 | That had been a long time ago . |