Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [prep] a long " in BNC.

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1 I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while .
2 ‘ We are in for a long afternoon , ’ he said cheerfully .
3 No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time .
4 ‘ I get the feeling we 're in for a long night ’ , she said .
5 Most of the force have drawn shields and batons , and I 've no doubt we 're in for a long night . ’
6 Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched .
7 I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’
8 I know I 'm in for a long night .
9 I sighed and lingered over coffee because I know I 'd be in for a long session while I listened to June 's catalogue of woes .
10 We could be in for a long night . ’
11 So Eddie knows the real Delia Forbes has gone away and wo n't be back for a long time … but so what ? ’
12 It will be around for a long time .
13 She 'll be around for a long time yet . ’
14 REGARDLESS of how much longer Norman Lamont survives at No 11 , his Budget will be around for a long time .
15 Of Records , Laurie Bruce writes : ‘ Many people are giving up records for cassettes or compact discs – a great mistake as records will be around for a long time to come .
16 Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time .
17 As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time .
18 The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time .
19 Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time .
20 Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic .
21 Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago .
22 The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems .
23 Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers .
24 Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year .
25 Is this a new disease , something we 've discovered recently , or has it been around for a long time ?
26 We were in for a long , rough passage , battling into the wind for seven hours or more .
27 Ken and Maggie were in for a long run .
28 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 .
29 One evening they were out for a long , long time .
30 ‘ No point , our lights were out for a long time , they 'd just use that as an excuse .
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