Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shrewsbury have got to make sure as much as possible when they do win the ball in the they do n't just smash long balls up , because as l as soon as they do that and as long as they keep doing that , Blackburn just pick up the ball again and keep coming at them , they 've got to try like they did just a few minutes ago , try and play themselves out of defence with nice low passes . |
| 2 | You 'll also have longer to repay . |
| 3 | These may also have longer points . |
| 4 | Care-giving can also have longer term effects on labour market participation . |
| 5 | Those private firms who also invested time and money in the project will surely think long and hard before getting involved in such ‘ joint ventures ’ again . |
| 6 | In tracing that elusive ancestor the family historian therefore needs to be aware that long before the age of the railways people did sometimes travel long distances and that it was very common for men , women and adolescents to move within a few miles radius of their birthplace . |
| 7 | This , as we have seen , helps to damp down what might otherwise become long and damaging runs of mutual recrimination . |