Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were in for a long , rough passage , battling into the wind for seven hours or more . |
| 2 | Ken and Maggie were in for a long run . |
| 3 | She and Sebastian were off on a long honeymoon , to spend two months in Tuscany in an old farmhouse belonging to friends of Deborah and Stephen : it was temporarily in need of a caretaker . |
| 4 | One evening they were out for a long , long time . |
| 5 | ‘ No point , our lights were out for a long time , they 'd just use that as an excuse . |
| 6 | Clare was told she was in for a long stay in bed , and Mother moved in a divan to sleep next to her . |
| 7 | that may mean that we meet a demoralized norwich team away on saturday — or — that they got boosted by their fine performance — ekoku was back after a long time injury for norwich . |
| 8 | For our purposes what matters is that RNA , or something like it , was around for a long time before it became self-replicating . |