Example sentences of "[art] long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We met at the north fork of the Sacramento River , the longest river in California .
2 ‘ No. 5 is the new lifting shop , 750ft from end to end , and the longest building in the works .
3 Ions with the lowest energy ( E ) observed on any one field line have the longest time-of-flight , t , and were therefore the first injected : they crossed the magnetopause at X , a distance d from the satellite ( where is the ion mass ) .
4 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 .
5 Although British women who qualify do have the longest leave in Europe ( 30 weeks ) , three months of it is unpaid .
6 ‘ We had the longest telephone talk ever known to the Lulling exchange last night .
7 It maintains the longest contact with the skin when it is most required .
8 Once again , at the very end of this , the longest video of the three , Julian sneaks in some additional MIDI-based information , leading you on to the rather more complex volume three .
9 The longest pontificate was that of Boniface VIII , from 1294 to 1303 , and it was undoubtedly the most difficult one for the English king .
10 Not only were they the longest hours they had ever been called upon to endure , but the coldest .
11 Then a European Commission report showed that British workers do the LONGEST hours in Europe — for FIFTH RATE pay .
12 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 .
13 Somewhat surprising is the fact that the longest hours are not put in by the women with the largest number of children .
14 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 . ’
15 Each element of the array could be a fixed length character string , but this would be quite wasteful of memory as this fixed length would have to be enough to fit the longest word in the list .
16 That 's the longest word in the dictionary .
17 That 's the longest word in the dictionary .
18 More than 450 eyes have so far been treated but the study is based on 79 patients with the longest experience of the treatment .
19 Over the next few years the planning of urban motorways had considerable impact on the metropolitan areas of the West Midlands , Greater Manchester , Merseyside and Greater Glasgow , and the M4 , snaking across West London , was the longest road viaduct in Europe .
20 The M40 is the longest road in Britain without services on it .
21 The 15th was the longest hole at 580 yards , although not so formidable as the 8th where ‘ fences are utilised as hazards , and there are several trees stumps ’ .
22 In 1912 , according to the Standard , Henley was a rare record — the longest hole in one !
23 Baltusrol is unusual in many respects , most notably that it contains the longest hole in championship golf , the 630 yard 17th .
24 , Mean relative tail lengths of the species with the longest streamer tail ( pintail or deep fork ) and graduated tail in each of the seven families that contain both long tail types ( Psittacidae , Caprimulgidae , Trochilidae , Tyrannidae , Monarchidae , Ploceidae and Paradisaeidae ) .
25 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 ) .
26 Still , though ; stuck on earth ( it was sometimes the longest blink ) it was Meg 's ambition to visit Jerusalem .
27 Red has the longest wavelength of visible light , and violet the shortest .
28 This means it can ‘ see ’ cool clouds of dust and gas , with the longest wavelength detecting the coldest .
29 In each picture , the longest wavelength is coded in red , the next-longest green , and the shortest wavelength ( where there are three ) in blue .
30 The longest wavelength ( 4.8 mm , shown red ) is not reflected solar radiation , but is once again the glow from the planet 's interior heat source .
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