Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 31 | Whenever the so-called yield gap ( long minus short rates ) goes negative , and stays so for longer than two business quarters , past experience suggests that the banks get badly bruised . |
| 32 | These findings are also in line with figures produced by the Justices ' Clerks ' Society ( 1992 ) which we cited earlier , suggesting that for a given range of offence types , Crown Courts are very much more likely to resort to custody than magistrates courts , and to do so for longer . |
| 33 | Inevitably , men pushed together for long periods of time became edgy and , by the time the prison was freed from the grip of the snow , three men had been knifed ( one of whom had lost a kidney ) and another had been beaten severely with a pool cue . |
| 34 | One of the implications of this is that married couples will be together for longer . |
| 35 | Some elderly people suffer from iron deficiency due to a very slight , and sometimes unrecognisable , blood loss from such conditions as piles , diverticulitis , hiatus hernia — and occasionally bleeding from the stomach , if they have been taking aspirin for rheumatism daily for long periods , and this may cause anaemia . |
| 36 | While it seems that there may often be only one candidate , especially for longer words , there will be more than one on a significant number of occasions . |
| 37 | I , and indeed a lot of other people , feel that this is going to happen sooner than you think , and that many of you will be happily using the train in the near future , especially for longer journeys . |
| 38 | And Gooch had agreed to tour India this winter only after long discussions at home . |
| 39 | Spanish and Portuguese membership came only after long talks , and was expected to put greater pressures on the Social and Regional Funds , as well as increasing the costs of the CAP . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | The compromise list was put together after long hours of high drama when Mr Pozsgay , a minister of state and the leading reformer , and two of his close allies threatened to walk out . |
| 42 | Subsequent studies ( e.g. Kleinsmith & Kaplan , 1963 , 1964 ; Parkin , Lewinsohn & Folkard , 1982 ) have found that recall for associates to emotional words , or even nonsense syllables evoking high GSRs , is worse after short retention intervals ( e.g. 2 minutes ) but better after longer intervals ( e.g. 7 days ) . |
| 43 | These are the years I look back on as having consisted entirely of long hot summers . |
| 44 | But Virginia Woolf 's mature novels consist almost entirely of long passages of introspection by the characters in free indirect style , punctuated by banal conversational remarks and parenthetical reports of trivial actions . |
| 45 | This seemed to quieten Oliver ; his screams died down into long , big sobs that made him shake all over . |
| 46 | They have also reintroduced selective Saturday opening of branches , together with longer weekday opening . |
| 47 | A new sense of harmony is unlikely to be developed if bored parents have to wait endlessly in long queues to see teachers . |
| 48 | Lesley-Jane , perhaps from long experience of having her mother going on about her or perhaps just from exhaustion , did not seem to be listening . |
| 49 | Note that DH III and DH IV are seen in the BALB/c mouse but only upon longer exposures . |
| 50 | Although a couple of David Platt 's efforts have derived from shots on the edge of the penalty area , as indeed did Paul Merson 's debut goal in Prague , the general rule is that England are not scoring enough from long range . |
| 51 | For example , stylist Errol Douglas , from Edmonds salon in London ( tel : 071–589 5958 ) , showed us how curlers set randomly in long , straight hair with no layers will create loose waves . |
| 52 | The leaves are narrow , long up to 4ins ( 10cms ) , long , ribbon-shaped , bright green , growing opposite on long , branching stems . |
| 53 | Customer loyalty depends very much on long term customer satisfaction and belief that the school is providing quality education . |
| 54 | I dropped in on long sessions of talk , putting the world to rights — after all that was supposed to be one of the main aspects of college education was n't it ? |
| 55 | Will do better over longer distances . |
| 56 | There , women sat squeezed together on long wooden benches . |
| 57 | Light or bright green , oval or oblong , small leaves which grow close together on long stems . |
| 58 | Friedman 's views are based essentially on the quantity theory relationship and depend crucially on statistical evidence which purports to show that velocity is relatively stable and predictable especially over long time periods . |
| 59 | These are merely two of many illustrations of the dangers of travel by sea , even though this was often easier , especially over long distances , than movement by land . |
| 60 | To some extent , this is engendered by the timing of college examinations , which occur only at long intervals . |