Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adult shells are 10 cm or more long . |
| 2 | The same thing happens with Pele 's tears ; they draw off behind them a long hair-like tail of glass , which may be a metre or more long . |
| 3 | AMI would not say how much the contract was worth or how long it was due to run . |
| 4 | If you have regular periods , though , or unusually long or short cycles , mention it since this could affect the due date . |
| 5 | and it worked , and it got over to Australia , it got unpacked and it still worked when it got to Australia , and it went on the stand and it stood on the stand for a week or however long it was . |
| 6 | I thought well that 's fair comment cos there 's people 's houses I 'd stay away from cos I do n't like the wives , so I mean , you know , that 's , I do n't go round , but the thing is she 's been gone about what three year now , four year or something or however long it is why do n't she come now ? |
| 7 | If we fail to take this opportunity Mr Mayor , as I as I feel we are about to do I am a hundred percent convinced that in years to come people will look back at this year , or however long it happens to be and say they missed out on a golden opportunity to make social , to make more houses and to make social housing better in this city and across the country . |
| 8 | It would be desirable to be able to discard those candidates which are too short or too long to be the correct word — this would reduce the number of candidate words to be considered for further processing . |
| 9 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 10 | Somewhere out there Michael Wayland is saying to his wife , ‘ God , when what's-that-man's-name began telling that enormously long story about how he made a fool of himself crawling round the floor on his hands and knees , which he obviously found so funny , I thought I 'd die . ’ |
| 11 | It was like a ‘ ghost ship ’ — he used those words — the three masts standing black against the white of the low , snow-mantled line of the shore opposite and that enormously long bowsprit jutting out from the wooden hull of the ship ‘ like a lance ’ . |
| 12 | The monstrous irony is that as long as he does n't place bolts nobody will bother accusing him of environmental vandalism . |
| 13 | I keep telling Michel that nobody is in the slightest doubt that we 've run off together , but the fact seems to be that as long as there 's no actual proof , it ca n't hurt us . |
| 14 | Fig. 6.14 shows that quite long chains must be expected . |
| 15 | My family knew that however long and however hard they worked to scrape a living , they would always be poor . |
| 16 | Although they enjoyed their lifestyle there was evidence that very long hours were worked , greater than the individual enterprises actually required . |
| 17 | But being me I could n't stand that very long , may be two or three months , and I asked to be moved . |
| 18 | than too long |
| 19 | The length of transition has to strike a balance between being imprudently short and discouragingly long . |
| 20 | With synthetic thread , polyester for example , and rather long stitches at 4 to the inch or 6mm each , Tyvek sheet can be treated as a fabric in the sewing machine . |
| 21 | Like some fantastic prison , where you could drink so deeply and so long that you forgot your bondage . |
| 22 | Jim thought this was priceless and laughed so loud and so long that he brought the Duty Officer down from Flying Control to find out what he 'd missed . |
| 23 | She had partied with Andrew Jean , Cheeks and So Long Suin the night before last , and Herman had n't even tried to clear up . |
| 24 | Indeed , she walked so far and so long that she was too tired to write anything at all upon her return and did not in fact send a reply until the following day . |
| 25 | you put the plastic pot on the bottom , that on the top and so long |
| 26 | Thus , for a profession-orientated list server , messages may act as a record of the change in theory and practice and as such deserve good records management and perhaps long term retention . |
| 27 | Sand vaporised in bunkers and only long hitters managed to reach the fairway of their first shot of the day on Dunluce . |
| 28 | The rounded body and extra long handle are ideal when wearing gloves . |
| 29 | Striped plumage , dark head stripes , shining white undercarriage and ludicrously long beak . |
| 30 | There are a number of birds which have long legs , long necks , and possibly long or specially shaped bills . |