Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time . |
| 2 | St Peter walked along silently for a long distance . |
| 3 | It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing . |
| 4 | Well I think there were niggling little points in all the quarries , the workforce certainly has n't been happy up in for a long time . |
| 5 | It means so much to the supporters in the Oxford area , it means so much to the club , I think you 've really got to be up here for a long time to realise just how much it does mean to everybody in this area . |
| 6 | Vic threads the tunnels , switches lanes , swings out on to a long covered ramp that leads to a six-lane expressway thrust like a gigantic concrete fist through the backstreets of his boyhood . |
| 7 | It was almost a door and looked out on to a long paved garden bordered with box hedges and there was an inviting looking higher hedge at the bottom with an arch of greenery over a gap in the middle . |
| 8 | They got back together after a long break so he must have liked her as she was . |
| 9 | Charlotte turned , before getting into the car , and looked back once in a long , sweeping survey of the twilit bowl of turf and stone . |
| 10 | At the major shows , winners are often exposed to the glare of television lights , and expected to parade for the cameras as well , before journeying back home after a long day . |
| 11 | And er the trainer on medical practices has been out there for a long long time doing this so there 's a lot a wealth of experience there . |
| 12 | It was a leafy place ; professional people , merchants , senior civil servants had lived around here for a long time . |