Example sentences of "and [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The length of transition has to strike a balance between being imprudently short and discouragingly long . |
| 2 | With synthetic thread , polyester for example , and rather long stitches at 4 to the inch or 6mm each , Tyvek sheet can be treated as a fabric in the sewing machine . |
| 3 | Like some fantastic prison , where you could drink so deeply and so long that you forgot your bondage . |
| 4 | Jim thought this was priceless and laughed so loud and so long that he brought the Duty Officer down from Flying Control to find out what he 'd missed . |
| 5 | She had partied with Andrew Jean , Cheeks and So Long Suin the night before last , and Herman had n't even tried to clear up . |
| 6 | Indeed , she walked so far and so long that she was too tired to write anything at all upon her return and did not in fact send a reply until the following day . |
| 7 | you put the plastic pot on the bottom , that on the top and so long |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Sand vaporised in bunkers and only long hitters managed to reach the fairway of their first shot of the day on Dunluce . |
| 10 | And obviously longer term if you can get er a victory tonight then obviously it sets you up with a reasonably good chance of of going through from this group because two home wins , a couple of away games to go , and i it would set you up nicely . |
| 11 | Queues vary , being shortest , for instance , for three-bedroom houses and much longer for ‘ specialist ’ accommodation for the elderly ( a common rural problem ) . |
| 12 | But over the lifetime of a Parliament the Lib Dem PSBR would fall below the Tories because ours is short term borrowing for investment and not longer term for tax cuts . |
| 13 | The rounded body and extra long handle are ideal when wearing gloves . |
| 14 | Striped plumage , dark head stripes , shining white undercarriage and ludicrously long beak . |
| 15 | There are a number of birds which have long legs , long necks , and possibly long or specially shaped bills . |
| 16 | This usually means they have slow speed and concomitantly long exposure times , so it is necessary to ensure that the microscope is free from vibration , best done by working on a stone or concrete optical bench . |
| 17 | You will love and hate television and always long for success with it . |
| 18 | It took several weeks before the new trader was able to work out roughly the quantities he needed each morning to satisfy his customers ' needs , and still longer to realise that those needs would vary from day to day |
| 19 | I have a very extensive tool kit and am employed in the motorcycle industry and desperately need the challenge of something more worthwhile and reasonably long term . |
| 20 | These provisions are likely to militate against repeat applications and unduly long orders except where strictly necessary . |
| 21 | She commenced to promenade up and down the stage , punctuating her remarks with hammy gestures of her lorgnette and preposterously long cigarette holder . |
| 22 | But lengthened realizations often turn up in ‘ short ’ environments , and both long and short realizations often vary qualitatively , as is clear from the figures in table 6.6 . |
| 23 | Time passes quickly in Sutherland , almost unnoticed in the hills ; and as long shadows gathered in secret corries , I took down my rod and walked home , full of wonderful memories to warm cold winter nights . |
| 24 | The findings showed the Anglo-Saxon nave was as wide and as long and almost as high as the present one , which was built by the Normans . |
| 25 | But the findings showed the Anglo-Saxon nave was as wide and as long and almost as high as the present Norman one . |
| 26 | And in view of the later age of marriage and often long engagements of the Edwardian years , it seems likely that by the end of the nineteenth century there was a new degree of sexual restraint amongst many young adults of the working class . |
| 27 | According to Vitruvius , a fall of six inches over every 100 feet was considered desirable and often long detours had to be made to avoid a too sudden descent . |
| 28 | Embassies still went from Moscow to the states of Europe at irregular and often long intervals and stayed only briefly . |
| 29 | It took another week or so for the cat to start to ignore Dawn , and even longer for her to stop taking too much notice of him and actually watch TV . |
| 30 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |