Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extensive work by gerontologists on service provision for old people and their responses to it suggest that cheaper alternatives to some costly services might enable more of the elderly to remain fitter and independent of institutions for longer . |
| 2 | No longer were our proposals for long term projects just reports on pieces of paper ; they were real — and not just for us , but for the children of Vietnam . |
| 3 | Proposals for longer pieces ( to 600 words ) are welcome — please contact . |
| 4 | As for the human rights record of Saudi Arabia , Amnesty reports the detention of political prisoners for long periods without trial — eleven have been incarcerated since 1979 . |
| 5 | As for the human rights record of Saudi Arabia , Amnesty reports the detention of political prisoners for long periods without trial — eleven have been incarcerated since 1979 . |
| 6 | Repeated daily injections of the somatostatin analogue , octreotide ( SMS201–995 , Sandostatin ) are an effective treatment for acromegaly , but lead to gall stone formation in about 50% of cases during long term treatment . |
| 7 | Early rip-offs such as one-minute ( as opposed to 30-second ) billing have all but disappeared , as have contracts for longer than one year . |
| 8 | Experiments have shown that the shorter ( 14,769 item ) word list contains insufficient items for practical purposes ( i.e. the correct words were not found in the list ) , so search times for longer lists should be considered more important . |
| 9 | So it remains to be seen whether we may have such a network , or perhaps even assuming that nearly all the cheap oil runs out , whether we might in fact manufacture petrol artificially from wood , coal , or gas , simply to provide the excellent fuel with its wonderful storage characteristics for long distance transport . |
| 10 | There are in fact more than five ways to display a date as you can alter the default settings for Long International and Short International using the command : /Worksheet , Global , Default , Other , International , Date |
| 11 | Headless Periplaneta and Schistocerca can be trained to flex their legs for long periods in order to avoid an electric shock . |
| 12 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 13 | Fibre-optic cable is pricey but can carry more simultaneous signals for longer distances . |
| 14 | The majority of the indigenous cattle of Scandinavia are naturally polled : it seems that the northern stockmen , who because of the demands of climate needed to house their animals for long periods , appreciated long ago that horns could be awkward at close quarters and it is clear that polled stock were deliberately bred in Scandinavia from early times . |
| 15 | Borrowers generally require guaranteed funds for longer periods of time at the lowest possible cost . |
| 16 | ‘ It is a drug used in medicine since 1935 and its serious side-effects are rare even when it is prescribed at high concentrations for long periods . |
| 17 | you know , if you sh given them a slide show that 's all very well but , they may well want to look at some of the pictures for longer . |
| 18 | We pray for those who are confined to their homes for long periods . |
| 19 | They discovered sweatshops and people working in their homes for long hours trying to erm patch together a very very poor living . |
| 20 | All of the models described so far are targeted on people with most needs and engage these clients for long periods of time , sometimes indefinitely ( substituting for long-term institutional care for the most needy people ) . |
| 21 | This was particularly true for those small communities , small towns , or groups of peasants , who had won their privileges after long struggles against a higher authority . |
| 22 | Eryngium eburneum is the most frequently seen of several similar eryngiums , all of which boast bold clumps of long , narrow evergreen leaves . |
| 23 | in the second half so we can expect to see Collimore racing on to all sorts of long balls now . |
| 24 | Dr Freda Newcombe 's work setting up this unit has made all the difference to Mark and other head injured people , who can suffer all sorts of long term effects , including loss of memory and severe personality changes . |
| 25 | For all their impressive size , they were in a sorry state : their courses choked with silt , their beds cracked and their banks decayed by centuries of long , hard Martian winters . |
| 26 | However , considerations of long term safety are also important as lifelong maintenance treatment is usually recommended . |
| 27 | One of the major strengths of Long Time Companion is its avoidance of the ‘ Government Health Warning ’ approach to AIDS . |
| 28 | The toppled heads of long forgotten deities and dignitaries observed his passing , the silence they had enjoyed for centuries broken by the rattling of his chains and bells . |
| 29 | It is also noteworthy that in mild disease , concentrations of long n6 polyunsaturated fatty acids , especially arachidonic acid , also remained above those in healthy controls . |
| 30 | Mr Hoffman or Miss Farrow or both were the subjects of long articles in the American press , of the cover story in Time , and then of another cover story in The Observer 's colour section . |