Example sentences of "[adv] of long " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are the years I look back on as having consisted entirely of long hot summers . |
| 2 | But Virginia Woolf 's mature novels consist almost entirely of long passages of introspection by the characters in free indirect style , punctuated by banal conversational remarks and parenthetical reports of trivial actions . |
| 3 | Summer gales were rarely of long duration in our experience , and if it blew really hard we used to snug down in the lee of one of the many anchorages and take to the hills for a change . |
| 4 | Chapter 5 constitutes a rather tedious juxtaposition of " the most popular things in popular fiction " , as it consists mainly of long lists of those ingredients that have the highest frequency in popfiction . |
| 5 | Adam Smith did not deny that there were bad examples within the " system of repairing the highroads by tolls " , but in 1776 thought this was because the system was not then of long standing . |
| 6 | Punk reduced , through shortsighted , dogged adherence , to an anti-hippy tradition : instead of long tracks , pseudo-virtuosity , mystique , complex instrumentation — a self-conscious absence of these things . |
| 7 | ‘ Unfortunately , in my experience it 's seldom of long duration . ’ |
| 8 | Girls ' underachievement relates to specific areas of mathematics , especially those involving measurements and the concepts which underlie them ; this kind of underachievement is almost certainly of long standing . |