Example sentences of "[prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 31 | After a long period of deliberation , during which Craganour 's owner Charles Bower Ismay was seen to become ever more pale , the official announcement was given : the race went to Aboyeur . |
| 32 | ‘ Whenever we came back to Woodbrook after a long absence , the servants would always have a fire and a meal ready to greet us , ’ Phoebe 's sister Antoinette once told me . |
| 33 | After a long genial conversation between Gerry Matthews and the road-sweeper , we were on our way . |
| 34 | After a long moment , in which he read the answer for himself , I said , ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 35 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 36 | To give judgment upon these presentments , the ancient machinery of the Forest Eyre was once more set in motion after a long period of general disuse . |
| 37 | And then after a long pause , he sighed , ‘ But it will never be quite the same . ’ |
| 38 | The document has reappeared after a long sleep in California , and is estimated at £150,000 . |
| 39 | His reappearance after a long night of uncertainty prompted scenes of rejoicing among Palestinians around the Middle East . |
| 40 | Celtic should be encouraged by the form of Paul McStay , who orchestrated their dominance in this match and clearly has not lost his zest for the game after a long winter injury . |
| 41 | What distinguishes the companies still with us after a long period of recession is that they are lucky — they do not seem to have been hit by the unexpected . |
| 42 | After a long moment , he turned away , and paid attention to the current victim . |
| 43 | Like domestic Guinea Pigs , the young are born well developed after a long gestation period of four months — covered in fur and with eyes open , they run around the mother soon after birth . |
| 44 | The secretary of the planning committee that examined the project was an MI6 officer called George Blake who had recently returned to England after a long spell of captivity in Korea . |
| 45 | After a long campaign to set the record straight , including an investigation by a House of Lords committee , Salter was eventually vindicated in 1990 when the Department of Energy agreed to adjust the figures in its official literature . |
| 46 | Mass is celebrated here at midday , the church having been reconsecrated after a long deconsecration period . |
| 47 | After a long interrogation from the prosecution , Day was asked to sit down . |
| 48 | After a long and colourful summing up , in which he swelt on the viciousness of the attack and the grievousness of the wounds , the callousness of the defendants and the misery of the surviving relatives , he made one adamant point . |
| 49 | In order to test these predictions we need to compare the size of the latent inhibition effect found after a long exposure — test interval ( which we may take to be 24 h or more ) with that found after a short interval ( when conditioning follows exposure immediately or after a few minutes ) . |
| 50 | Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) offer as justification for this assumption the suggestion that ‘ important ’ memories retain the ability to be retrieved even after a long retention interval whereas less important memories do not . |
| 51 | If the memory of the association of a given flavour with illness can be taken to be more important than the memory that the flavour has also been experienced without harmful consequences , then the latter memory would interfere after a short but not after a long retention interval . |
| 52 | The city objected , and after a long controversy one was duly built . |
| 53 | Retiro Station offered Paul Theroux a comfortable sense of home-coming after a long rail journey through the continent . |
| 54 | After a long flight your perceptions are dulled , and everything is synthetic . |
| 55 | Finally , after a long desperate battle with her conscience , she agreed , after he had had a small heart attack , to put him into a local hospital . |
| 56 | After a long series of preliminary earthquakes , a circular area of ground began to rise slowly and steadily in January 1944 ; by April the area affected was three kilometres across , and had gone up fifteen metres ; by June it had gone up fifty metres , and had taken the village of Fukaba and all its inhabitants with it . |
| 57 | I got up feeling bilious and with a burning headache , wobbling from the previous day 's struggle , as if I were finding my legs after a long illness . |
| 58 | Nails went upstairs and after a long time came down with a pair of paint-spattered dungarees and two pairs of jeans belonging to his father who weighed about sixteen stone , two jerseys of Gary 's and a navy-blue suit of indeterminate ancestry . |
| 59 | After a long slog in the 1980s to reach the top flight of the Championship , last season 's relegation was nothing short of disastrous for the club and Stedman feels that it is an indictment of Farnham that promising young players in the area , whom the town club would hope to recruit , are instead going to Guildford , attracted by division one status . |
| 60 | It is something that many people would not like to see , but there is no question that a high proportion of animals which are shot will carry lead shot for a while , will die after a long period — in many cases days or weeks — and there is a substantial amount of suffering when this happens . |