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Example sentences of "be a long [noun sg] in " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Well that 's no surprise ; but it 's been a long time in coming .
2	It 's been a long time in the pipeline …
3	" I believe the house is — pretty historic — been a long time in Preston 's family , " David Fairfax went on .
4	Add to this cost the growth in government expenditure , and we are a long way in explaining why the real value of the tax threshold , or the level of income at which tax begins to be paid , has fallen during the post-war period .
5	Wise men are a long time in the ship
6	Tomorrow will be a long day in the auction house with no room to move .
7	Even though Climent and Bardolet appear to be a long way in front — over 250 points — Meeke explains that Spain uses a European-style co-efficient scoring system .
8	‘ We are in the early stage of what will be a long debate in Europe , ’ she said .
9	That is just one of many anomalies in what will be a long list in Committee .
10	Three years can be a long time in a young life , Bernice concluded , and three years in Bernice 's century had certainly changed Ace .
11	We shall be a long time in Isvik .
12	These whirlwind developments were a long time in the planning but the results came with staggering speed and remarkable good nature and co-operation which finally sees the rugby world totally united once again but with a new combined force lurking below the equator .
13	If a week is a long time in politics , two days were a long time in the right hon. and learned Gentleman 's life last week .
14	It 's a long process in a big area .
15	There is a long tradition in Britain of hostility to ‘ political espionage ’ , some of which surfaces in this book .
16	And there is a long tradition in sociological thinking which makes precisely this distinction .
17	There is a long history in the use of case management within rehabilitation services in North America and these have usually been based on psychosocial models in psychiatric rehabilitation .
18	In Virginia Woolf 's To the Lighthouse there is a long passage in which Mrs Ramsay meditates after her child has been put to bed and she is on her own :
19	The ‘ Beeb ’ has been kind to its commentators — thirty years is a long time in television — and they in turn have served it well , adjusting cleverly to the growing informality of broadcasting without ever quite forgetting the august institution in which ‘ they serve ’ .
20	But three months is a long time in Euro-politics .
21	In the beginning Lorna 's illustrious co-stars frequently appeared ; Paul Newman came once , Jo remembered , but three years is a long time in Hollywood and now lunches were becoming more intimate .
22	Three years is a long time in world politics .
23	Twenty years is a long time in the development of sexual experience .
24	AN hour is a long time in politics .
25	A week is a long time in politics , said Harold Wilson .
26	A week is a long time in football , seven days in fact , but somehow a reversal of February 's 11–0 defeat at the hands of today 's opponents would prove that Lazarus does n't have the last word in comebacks , and we are still a team to be reckoned with .
27	Ten years is a long time in the world of books , but I do remember there was not nearly such a fuss over the original 1983 list : a rather uncomfortable party in some medical establishment , a few diary paragraphs and that was it .
28	A day is a long time in politics .
29	If a week is a long time in politics , two days were a long time in the right hon. and learned Gentleman 's life last week .
30	The problem is that most tenant 's covenants appear at the outset to be quite reasonable and innocuous , but if a week is a long time in politics then 25 years is a lifetime in property during which circumstances can and will change with a result that a previously innocent-looking covenant could become highly restrictive and troublesome .