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

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1 JAPAN 'S economic miracle has contributed to its population having the longest life expectancy in the world and Britain 's social and health policy makers could learn from it , two researchers claimed yesterday .
2 The countries with the highest proportions of people over 60 and 80 , and the longest life expectancy are highlighted .
3 The inhabitants of this tiny country next to Austria have the longest life expectancy in the world , with women living to an average 82.6 years , and males to 77.6 .
4 With the longest life expectancy in the world the Japanese have become obsessed with the burdens this places on private employers , their employees and the state .
5 The longest life expectancy in the Community is in Greece for men and France for women .
6 I propose a toast to the long life , health , wealth , and happy marriage , of Annabelle and Steven .
7 The longer life expectation of females is more marked in the developed countries ( Table 1.3 ) .
8 If Jones has outlived Smith this can not be explained by showing that he earlier had the higher life expectancy , and then arguing that this duly caused him to live the longer life .
9 Elderly women with bleeding varices seem to outnumber men , perhaps to be expected in view of the lower incidence of alcoholic cirrhosis and the longer life expectancy of women .
10 Ruth Hill-Williams writes : J.P.M.Millar had a long life ( obituary , December 7 ) , and his death signals the end of an era .
11 That evening I went to see an old friend ( that is , old in years ) in case out of the experience of a long life she might bring forth words of wisdom .
12 It 's not much to ask for , at the end of a long life . ’
13 You have had a long life of service and time to look back on it and if I did not know how your arthritis troubles you and with what difficulty you pen your kind notes I would ask you to help me in this .
14 Even Archibald earl of Argyll , nearing the end of a long life noted mainly for a remarkable inability to make decisions , now found ‘ boldness ’ in him ; he ‘ reformed many things ’ , we are told , and , despite the strictures of archbishop Hamilton , he maintained the Protestant preacher John Douglas in his household .
15 Fur collar hunched round his shoulders , flat hat askew , he was surrounded by a background warm with a sense of movement , an atmosphere thronged with the memories and moments of a long life .
16 If properly fitted to the shaft the boot has a long life .
17 I 've had a good long life — well , a long life , eh , Father Kenneth ? — and I 'm not right done yet .
18 Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III .
19 In my case , and I am sure I am not alone in this , I can picture in my mind 's eye every summit I have reached in a long life without confusion of identity .
20 He spent a long life as a rector and was a Canon of St Patrick 's , Armagh .
21 Then several fixing screws would be driven through ready-prepared countersunk holes in the tyre to ensure that never throughout a long life would it be able to slip .
22 The significant advance here was the development of a long life catalyst effective under relatively mild conditions ( 250°C and 50–100 atmospheres pressure ) .
23 The significant advance here was the development of a long life catalyst effective under relatively mild conditions ( 250°C and 50–100 atmospheres pressure ) .
24 I do not intend to offend ; I merely state my innermost feelings in terms of women , past and present , based on the experiences of a long life .
25 I 've had a long life and many blessings and you 've been one of the best .
26 We have spoken about old partners as if they will always have had a long life together and that is indeed the case in many of the pairs whom we currently encounter .
27 The aluminium is corrosion resistant , giving it a long life and our systems are made to BS 2997 and are mostly BBA approved .
28 The nation-state is inevitably becoming weaker as power goes both up to Europe and down to regions and districts , but it has a long life yet , and the British people have many uses for it .
29 In this tale , two weeds grew on a river bank ; one of them conserved its energy , and grew low and small and brown , with its sights set on a long life , while the other put forth all its strength into growing tall and into colouring itself a beautiful green .
30 It 's old ladies who show all the signs of a long life on subsistence , though they would n't necessarily see themselves as having been poor , because their husbands were n't necessarily poor .
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