Example sentences of "been a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh it would have been a long while after the war yes . |
| 2 | ‘ It has just been a long battle for us all . |
| 3 | There has been a long resistance to accepting that , in spite of the logical stringency with which laws in science are formulated , interrelated and tested , their origin has never ceased to be the same . |
| 4 | Most of this is in the northwest where there has been a long history of land-use , involving both degradation and successful reclamation . |
| 5 | There has been a long tradition of professional marketing activities by a wide spectrum of non-profit making organisations including political parties , the Health Education Council with its anti-smoking campaign , the Right to Read programme , Oxfam , Christian Aid and the Salvation Army . |
| 6 | In Devon and Cornwall indeed there seems to have been a long tradition of piratical and privateering activity in addition to legitimate trade , which may well have laid the foundation for the activities of seamen from this part of the country in the Elizabethan age ( 63 , pp.159–60 ) . |
| 7 | It had been a long day at the end of a busy week , but that was n't all of it . |
| 8 | It had been a long day for him already , and if he made it back before nine he was going to be lucky . |
| 9 | ‘ But it 's been a long day for Sam , so if you do n't mind I 'll send him home . |
| 10 | It must have been a long day for a boy of that age . |
| 11 | It had been a long day for our guests , as they had left La Loupe at 1Opm on the Friday evening , so it was home to bed for a good night 's sleep , ready for a full day exploring on the Sunday . |
| 12 | It 's been a long day of trundling past an infinity of fir trees , and photographer Ridgers has hardly survived it . |
| 13 | Seagram , last year 's winner , has been a long way behind that excellence this season , as has Bonanza Boy , the 1991 favourite , whose desertion by Peter Scudamore was clearly influenced by the drying conditions . |
| 14 | Mr Foster said : ‘ There has been a long period of uncertainty which always causes problems . |
| 15 | I know I 've been a long time on this but I 'll I think it 's nearly there . |
| 16 | Well that 's no surprise ; but it 's been a long time in coming . |
| 17 | It 's been a long time in the pipeline … |
| 18 | " I believe the house is — pretty historic — been a long time in Preston 's family , " David Fairfax went on . |
| 19 | It had been a long ride to an enclosure full of low single-storeyed huts of corrugated iron with cinder paths around , and all set in a large flat field of sparse greying grass . |
| 20 | Well what this has involved me in has been a long study of a single school . |
| 21 | Well what this has involved me in has been a long study of a single school . |
| 22 | There had been a long list of such casualties in Libby 's life , this was just another . |
| 23 | This has been a long chapter on the work of the Spirit in the individual Christian . |
| 24 | It would have been a long walk to here , and no doubt some other person would have been offering a dubious lift by the time she arrived . |