Example sentences of "a [adj] long " in BNC.

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1 Ahead of them , a 3-day long gruelling journey down the river from Hay to Chepstow .
2 Ahead of them , a 3-day long gruelling journey down the river from Hay to Chepstow .
3 A straddle position is a simultaneous long and short position in different months of the same futures contract , e.g. long one June ST3 contract and short one September ST3 contract .
4 Sounds like she 's got a flipping long dress on and a straw hat .
5 It was a bloody long way to go across London .
6 because a bloody long bonnet does n't impress
7 ‘ Well , it 's a bloody long way to go if you ask me . ’
8 It 's a bloody long way .
9 I 'd waited a bloody long time to be with you again , and there I was , behaving like a blasted prima donna and wasting my chances .
10 And anyway , the kitchen 's such a bloody long way away . "
11 a bloody long while .
12 Yes I 'm getting there , I know I know I know myself I 'm getting there , it 's just Like say , it 's just taking a bloody long while .
13 But , even if he could write the thing quickly , all the subsequent processes took such a bloody long time .
14 a bloody long time .
15 dis I mean , it 's a bloody long time that train in n it ?
16 Be a bloody long job !
17 The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship .
18 The ley starts from a wayside cross next to a crossroads , goes through Saintbury Church , noted for its pagan survivals , through a Bronze Age round barrow , a Neolithic long barrow sited in the middle of an Iron Age fort , through a Saxon pagan cemetery , and an eighteenth-century beacon tower , ending at an ancient farmstead , Seven Wells — which was the subject of a fictional book on witchcraft by Hugh Ross Williamson entitled The Silver Bowl .
19 It is the key to the success of many effective organizations who have found that it is a sound long term investment .
20 Seven hundred and seventy eight patients with a clear long standing history ( at least three years ) of gastrooesophageal reflux symptoms .
21 In the words of the Swedish writer Nils Aberg : ‘ We are compelled … to assume a direct long distance influence between the Mediterranean world and Ireland .
22 For example , many Northern English accents have a long sound as the realisation of the phoneme symbolised in RP ( which is a simple phonetic difference ) ; but in some Northern accents there is an diphthong phoneme and a contrasting long vowel phoneme that could be symbolised .
23 Such an attack on a popular long distance walk in rural North Yorkshire seemed unthinkable .
24 This is a public long distance footpath which mainly follows the watershed , or divide , between the rivers .
25 A YOUNG Portadown businessman told today how a two-foot long piece of shrapnel which missed him by inches ended up embedded in an employee 's leg .
26 She turned the handle of the spit when the Algerian gigots were roasted , larded with garlic and anchovies , in a kind of oval cage of iron slats in front of a hot fire of vine-stumps inside the huge hearth ; she sat on a bench inside the cheminée , turning the ratchet as it wound down , basting the lamb with oil and its own juices from a diabolical long spoon .
27 Thus the 1980s are seen as marked by the wholesale adoption of new technology replacing the legacy of the past and setting the terms of a future long boom .
28 Luton 's resilience brought an equaliser in the 27th minute when a typical long throw from Pembridge was flicked on by Harford and in the goalmouth scramble Varadi , on loan from Leeds , scored on his debut .
29 The charity , the 26th April Foundation ( formed by those who had been involved in putting out the reactor fire and evacuating the immediate area ) , planned to send ten children for a month- long ‘ trial ’ visit .
30 A similar long bridge crosses the Taw at Barnstaple , but this is neither as long nor as irregular as the Bideford bridge , and has been subject to more extensive alteration .
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