Example sentences of "[adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right longest chain longest chain you can find . |
| 2 | Sand vaporised in bunkers and only long hitters managed to reach the fairway of their first shot of the day on Dunluce . |
| 3 | Only long cloaks blowing , up on top of the young dunes , a gaze of strange cold eyes , a flash of spear-points — then the rain drove across , and Ruth could see only night . |
| 4 | 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 ’ |
| 5 | As a general rule , only long vehicles are taken in here for repair . |
| 6 | The depressing view of the unsightly pylons marching across the valley floor , heavy traffic thundering along the Woodhead Pass road , five reservoirs and a disused railway line , is soon left behind as you negotiate the tussocky grass slops below Long Gutter Edge towards the entrance to Wildboar Clough . |
| 7 | ‘ Rich , the dress needs ear-rings , long long long ear-rings , maybe diamonds or diamonds and emeralds … ’ |
| 8 | power considerations will usually give way to efficiency — at least in profit-making enterprises , if observations are taken at sufficiently long intervals [ … |
| 9 | The tenant should therefore initially attempt to delete clause 5.2.2 , but if this is not accepted a sufficiently long date should be inserted in it . |
| 10 | Fussler and Simon , in Patterns in the use of books in large research libraries , affirmed that ‘ past use over a sufficiently long period is an excellent and by far the best predictor of future use ’ , although they observed , ‘ the confidence limits of prediction vary significantly from one subject to another ’ . |
| 11 | Incidentally , Dubhe and Alkaid are moving across the sky in a direction opposite to that of the remaining five stars , so that over a sufficiently long period the Plough will lose its familiar shape . |
| 12 | If subject to stress for a sufficiently long period of time all ‘ solid ’ materials are capable of flow . |
| 13 | However , if gains are kept offshore for a sufficiently long period of time , the return on investment may exceed the increased capital gains tax liability . |
| 14 | Sufficiently long gap between contractions for me to smile for the camera . |
| 15 | For some goods it may be appropriate to permit cancellation at no charge provided sufficiently long notice is given . |
| 16 | At this stage the wing A is still exaggerated , but would however be reduced provided the prevailing wind , X , was of sufficiently long duration . |
| 17 | Therefore , before a conclusion is reached , tests must be continued for a sufficiently long time to demonstrate an adequate shelf-life in the market concerned . |
| 18 | In other words , they have been allowed to grow and multiply for a sufficiently long time to produce large numbers of cells . |
| 19 | The data reported by Kovacs in section 12.9 imply that the observed T g would decrease further if a sufficiently long time for measurement was allowed . |
| 20 | All you need to do is to be sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time and and his mates will turn around and throw up their hands and shak and and turn somersaults . |
| 21 | People who have intelligence and a conscience wrestle with these problems and we 've come to a conclusion which is as good a deal as we think we can get , with the people of the area and with the Labour party and I think he said that if people in this authority are sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time then people will change their minds . |
| 22 | Of course , as is illustrated by the decision of the NIRC in Hare v Murphy Brothers Ltd , 1974 KIR 57 , a sufficiently long prison sentence will constitute a unilateral repudiation of the contract by the employee . |
| 23 | It is hypothesised that most existing studies of adoption are not sufficiently long term to , demonstrate these effects . |
| 24 | Perhaps long exposure to tennis , bad public transport , English weather and the sight of miserable middle-aged people walking their dogs had driven this particular breakaway section of a breakaway section of the Nizari Ismailis right round the bend . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | For instance , Corbett , in support of the observation that Swift uses abnormally long sentences in A Modest Proposal , cites a much lower sentence length from a sample from A Tale of a Tub . |
| 27 | Teachers often report that they completely switch off at the beginning of the holidays , or sleep for abnormally long periods of time for several days . |
| 28 | Summer , with its endlessly long days and grouse shooting … |
| 29 | One afternoon after an especially long session she was forced to catch a much later bus home than usual . |
| 30 | The Soviet Union 's clear lead over the USA in manned , especially long duration , space flights on the Mir space station , the ninth of which began on May 18 , 1991 , was increasingly being set against the scientific value of cheaper unmanned space probes , even though these were also subject to financial cutbacks . |