Example sentences of "[art] long [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the longest trials in English criminal history ended on Aug. 28 , after 107 days in court , when three of the four defendants in the so-called Guinness scandal case were given prison sentences at Southwark Crown Court , following their conviction on 28 charges relating to an illegal share support scheme involving more than £15,000,000 of covert payments . |
| 2 | Not only were they the longest hours they had ever been called upon to endure , but the coldest . |
| 3 | Then a European Commission report showed that British workers do the LONGEST hours in Europe — for FIFTH RATE pay . |
| 4 | And his own man in the Washington Field Office , the CI-3 team , and putting in the longest hours and never a word of complaint , and that had won him the job in the Attaché 's office in Rome . |
| 5 | Somewhat surprising is the fact that the longest hours are not put in by the women with the largest number of children . |
| 6 | BIG strides in reducing junior doctors ' working hours have been announced by health minister Dr Brian Mawhinney , who said : ‘ Posts with the longest hours those contracted for an average of more than 83 hours a week fell by more than 2,000 to 3,234 , in the last six months . ’ |
| 7 | The Gaboon viper holds the record for the longest fangs — of the snake 's 3 m ( 10 ft ) length , the fangs measure almost 3 cm ( 1 in ) . |
| 8 | They make some of the longest journeys on the BR network . |
| 9 | VICENTE Fernandez won the English Open at The Belfry after sinking one of the longest putts ever to win a golf title . |
| 10 | By 1970 , with the passing of the old empire , these were all over , and only the totally unexpected war with Argentina over the Falklands in 1982 interrupted what was one of the longest periods of unbroken peace that Britain had known since the later middle ages . |
| 11 | The children who were in Pindown for the longest periods could receive more than £50,000 . |
| 12 | Of large industrial countries , the UK permits one of the longest periods at four months . |
| 13 | The poorest people experience the longest periods of being out of work . |
| 14 | It has fallen most heavily and for the longest periods on the most vulnerable members of society , with a particular concentration on the young , and on unskilled or semi-skilled workers . |
| 15 | A prices and incomes accord , negotiated in 1983 , had ( with several revisions ) covered the whole of the Hawke government 's period in office and was credited by its advocates with having created 300,000 jobs , reduced real unit labour costs and underpinned one of the longest periods of industrial harmony in the country 's history . |
| 16 | The longest task for manager A was more than five years , while for B , C and D , the longest tasks fell between two and five years . |
| 17 | Licio Gelli , former head of the banned P2 masonic lodge , and his assistant Umberto Ortolani received the longest sentences , of 18 years and six months and 19 years respectively . |
| 18 | Vascular-arbuscular mycorrhizae are spread as spores by wind , water and animals both invertebrate and vertebrate , the longest distances perhaps being achieved on birds ' feet , as well as by the more familiar root contact and infected plant material . |
| 19 | As South East Staffordshire health authority has drawn attention to the longest waiters — |
| 20 | As South East Staffordshire health authority has said , attention to the longest waiters ’ does not equate to attention to clinical priorities . ’ |
| 21 | It also had one of the longest lives as it was working right up to the late 1940s . |
| 22 | In most cases , decisions would be based on local custom , disputes often being referred to the oldest men present , those with the longest memories . |
| 23 | This causes precipitation of the longest chains first and these can be separated from the shorter chains which remain in solution . |
| 24 | Finally , to cap it all , in August Iraq invaded Kuwait , precipitating one of the longest runs of lead-stories in decades . |
| 25 | Magnetism may also be used during one of the longest migrations in the insect world . |
| 26 | They carved the longest bulletins on television into the news show we HAD to watch , launching a new genre of reporting after the stuffed-shirt formality of the BBC . |
| 27 | in the longest kisses and little else , |
| 28 | This year , which must prove that we dreamed it up , it was the THIRD Monday which saw the longest queues of all — to see John McEnroe and Michael Stich win the final set of the men 's doubles . |
| 29 | We got a big one where erm , sort of , it 's really cold , and so we keep erm , the longest dates and everything erm , that we do n't need immediately , and then , we got the fridge/freezer , we got the freezer in the stock-room , which is ours , we we just bought it , wh , my parents bought it about three years ago , for ourselves . |
| 30 | It is one of the longest galleries and is approached by both ramp and steps . |