Example sentences of "[noun] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of you that have children or er are involved in education in any way at the moment will be well aware of the cut and problems that are going on er within reorganization within education in this country at the moment and I learnt to sail through the National School Sailing Association a long time ago er and thousands and thousands of youngsters have done that over the years . |
| 2 | I think you 're only talking about redundancies if we ca n't erm take some short term work from elsewhere , er as opposed to , I mean , I 'm suggesting at the moment we take stock a longer time |
| 3 | The lamb he was after he saw now was a black and white one that had been sickly and Jack had kept in the lambing-shed a long time . |
| 4 | One evening Mrs Hollidaye brought to the bedroom a long wooden box . |
| 5 | Any discomfort as a result of this will be mentally connected with pain and it will take the horse a long time to forget both physically and mentally . |
| 6 | I 've been a soldier myself , I was a soldier a long long time ago and er er training was different in my day to what it is today . |
| 7 | I mean Tony 's been at the club a long time he 's expressed a wish to go erm his style and his age is probably just right to go on the continent , he 's twenty six years of age and er I would guess that his particular style wou possibly would be better suited to continental play than it is in England . |
| 8 | One thing , one thing about it , it 's crossed my mind a long time ago is er the idea of erm in the half hour or whatever twenty minutes before a concert , doing er concert programme notes |
| 9 | Patrick had seen the chance to ask a question that had been on his mind a long time . |
| 10 | At these words a long , low cry of despair and anger came from Bathsheba 's lips . |
| 11 | ‘ A friend of mine owned the studio and had been in the music industry a long time and was amazed that this 16-year-old had the whole production idea worked out in her head . ’ |
| 12 | Through a gap a long wave of treetops stretched to the horizon , in the middle distance the smoke was coming and going in irregular bursts as they had seen it do once before from Ridgery Steep . |
| 13 | She was holding a net curtain to one side with the gold-ringed fingers of one hand , while in the other hand she held to her mouth a long white ebony cigarette holder on which she drew constantly as she watched the visitor enter her neighbour 's house . |
| 14 | The English climate , having given its clients a long series of warm sunny days , had decided that this must be paid for . |
| 15 | On its right-hand side a long scar ran from just behind the ear to the corner of his mouth . |
| 16 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 17 | She had stayed at the baths a long time , probably getting a chill , but worst of all no-one would testify that the water in the pool had had a proper dose of chlorine . |
| 18 | The dark a long way off at each end of the day |
| 19 | In Smolensk guberniia a long list of bridges , points , and crossings had been blown up in military action . |
| 20 | All you had to do was wear a long raincoat and a glum expression — the rest was simply implied . |
| 21 | It had taken the mice a long time to explore , they had made short excited scurrying runs across the floor , then back to the hutch , nervous , unsure , limiting themselves to a small prescribed space , only later stepping out of it , extending their freedom . |
| 22 | Discouraged and exhausted by all the struggles of orthodox opera production Brook abandoned the opera house circuit a long time ago but first with Carmen and now Pelleas he has reached into the heart of operas , purifying them without diminishing them . |
| 23 | Discouraged and exhausted by all the struggles of orthodox opera production , Brook abandoned the opera house circuit a long time ago but first with Carmen and now Pelleas he has reached into the heart of operas , purifying without diminishing them . |
| 24 | They are often hung between trees or old posts a long way apart , and they are extremely difficult to see . |
| 25 | If we saw the cyclist close to and the motorist a long way away , they would look about the same . |
| 26 | He was from and he 'd been out of work a long time . |
| 27 | Your people ripped off the land from the Indians a long time ago . |
| 28 | Not as clearly defined as the one back at his office , more like a study really , with a desk and filing cabinet , a bookcase against one wall , and beneath a wide window a long , narrow work-top cluttered with various pieces of gadgetry . |
| 29 | In 1982 after Mexico said it was unable to pay its debts , the IMF ( International Monetary Fund ) moved to prevent a crisis , and in return for giving debtor countries a longer time to pay , the IMF laid down austerity measures — with dire consequences for the poor . |
| 30 | Her granny , who had been a Brownie Guider a long time ago , had told her about how a Brownie smiles instead of crying when in trouble . |