Example sentences of "'s [adj] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos there 's such a long waiting list , tha that 's the value of it out there |
| 2 | but er , as you say erm , really it 's such a long journey that you need a breather before you need to start to cross the channel |
| 3 | ‘ It 's such a long way away , sir ! ’ |
| 4 | It 's such a long way you know |
| 5 | Yes I know , but it 's such a long way to get up there ! is n't it ? |
| 6 | They talk about it as if that 's such a long period , and yet it seems like yesterday when my last one came out , but you do n't realise it 's that long ; you do n't sit round watching the calendar . |
| 7 | I did try and help her about how to run a war because it 's such a long time since anybody 's run a war — I mean the technical methods of running a war — which she did very well . |
| 8 | But as you said , Harri , it 's such a long time ago . |
| 9 | It 's all a long way since his early acting days on the stage in the late Seventies which culminated in playing Lady MacDuff in an all-male production of Macbeth in Glasgow . |
| 10 | It 's all a long way from those bit-parts and Lynda 's delighted to be making her mark — even if it did mean changing career . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , it 's all a long way off , ’ Joanna said cheerfully . |
| 12 | It 's all a long time ago and I 've been married to him for thirty-nine years . |
| 13 | It 's all a long time ago now of course . |