Example sentences of "[prep] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( In early December the Diet accordingly gave its consent , after long discussion , to a much-amended version of the bill . ) |
| 2 | By 1679 it was estimated that such payments were six or seven years in arrears ; and in the 1690s English diplomats were still very often paid merely in Exchequer tallies which could be cashed only after long delay and at ruinous discounts to their face value . |
| 3 | After long exposure to the air or burial in the ground most materials corrode . |
| 4 | In some climates , outdoor workers have to be trained to take protective measures against exposure to long periods of sunlight leading to dehydration because of perspiration loss ; or to heat stroke ; or after long exposure , to an increasing rise in the incidence of skin cancer ( Nichols , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | After a while the whistle is repeated — by the same blackbird or by its mate — but always as if this were the first time it had occurred to him to whistle ; if this is a dialogue , each remark is uttered after long reflection . |
| 6 | Here 's Darwin saying in a letter to a friend Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a tendency to progression and indeed , Darwin 's view was the contrary to this , and here 's another quote from Darwin , after long reflection , I can not avoid the conviction that no innate tendency to development exists . |
| 7 | After long consideration , he had decided that he would try to write a book so outrageous that the Presbyterian élite of Tollemarche would ostracize the whole Stych family and thus put an end to his mother 's inane social life . |
| 8 | Only 24 hours after Marfa joined the bonfire of Old Believers that Sunday afternoon — and , after long consideration of the Stravinsky , Shostakovich and Rimsky conclusions to Mussorgsky 's score , Gergiev decided that she should mount the pyre to an orchestral reprise of the Russian melody , very simple and strong — the Kirov orchestra and chorus were reassembling for something completely different : a revival of Tchaikovsky 's Queen of Spades in the production originally conceived by Gergiev 's predecessor at the Kirov , the equally charismatic Yuri Temirkanov . |
| 9 | After long deliberation , they settled on a dark bottle-green , and the elderly assistant measured off the required length , pulling yards of cloth from the bale and running it down the length of the counter , measuring it against a fixed brass rule . |
| 10 | But over and above other factors such as the growing disenchantment , after long experience , with the Auld Alliance , and the beginning of awareness that living at peace with the English might be better than suffering the massive destruction inflicted during the Rough Wooing , there was one compelling new element : Protestantism . |
| 11 | The two principals she served under were men coming to the end of their service after long experience as leaders . |
| 12 | Bells ring after long silence |
| 13 | The other ( the Thorntons ) restored to life after long absence , consists only of Charles ( widower of Kate 's best friend ) and his daughter , Araminta . |
| 14 | After long use of permanent hair colourants , which penetrate the hair shaft , hair may be porous , broken and dull . |
| 15 | Arun saves yacht and skipper after long tow in severe weather |
| 16 | That cabal had created the hydra after long research in covert theological laboratories located on the frozen fringe of some barren solar system unclaimed by either the Imperium or by aliens . |
| 17 | Secondly , gastric somatostatin concentrations have been found to be low after long term omeprazole treatment in rats , and thirdly , exogenous administration of somatostatin to hypergastrinaemia patients has been shown to inhibit significantly gastrin release . |
| 18 | The regard was held again after long discontinuance : presentments were enrolled , as in medieval times , for production at the Forest Eyre . |
| 19 | After long debate in Parliament , the condition was accepted and the collections were moved to Montague House to become the nucleus of the British Museum . |
| 20 | The additional band migrating between N-Oct 3 and 5 was also observed in brain extracts after longer exposure , perhaps from binding of a cofactor to the N-Oct 5 complex rather than a dimer of N-Oct 5 which is expected to migrate slower . |
| 21 | The problem bids fair to rank as one of the unsolved mysteries of the British constitution of longest standing . |
| 22 | Free of money lenders and learning to save and contribute financially to their own programme is an important step towards long term self sustainability . |
| 23 | Radio signalling made more than a debut , helping toward the achievement of one of the decade 's miracles , not only the survival but with greater expectation of long life of much of the Highland lines and many more . |
| 24 | For Tibetan freedom and for thousands of years of long life for His Holiness the Dalai Lama — and because the Chinese should leave Tibet . |
| 25 | Shouting rude jokes , they dumped him in beside her , drank a toast of long life and many babes to the happy pair , blew out the candle and reeled out to continue their feasting in the hall . |
| 26 | Quality build is an integral part of long life and has always been the source of Nautor 's success . |
| 27 | A crane , the emblem of long life , stood out from the surface of the quartz , flanked by magpies , signifying good luck ; while encircling the top of the bottle was a spray of peonies , emblematic of spring and wealth . |
| 28 | The off-licence was empty except for two drop-outs buying canned beer : the proprietor contrived to address Scarlet and Constance without once taking his eyes off his other customers , not even as he wrapped a bottle of Smirnoff and extracted six cans of Long Life from under the glass counter . |
| 29 | Erm yeah , Romeo and Juliet was not completely his idea , it came from a sort of long poem which he read about two lovers and then he turned it into a play . |
| 30 | With the increased vigilance of our officers at seaports and airports and the need to import large consignments of drugs to feed the growing habit of users the obvious answer was to charter or buy a small craft capable of long sea voyages . |