Example sentences of "and [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | They allowed for marking to the market , transactions costs ( which differed between institutions and members , and between long and short positions ) , and for capital gains , income and futures taxes . |
| 2 | It is also very good with a buoyant or pop-up boilie set-up and for long range work casts slightly better than the side-hooked option . |
| 3 | Our own disputes about Sunday trading ignore the fact that most of our Community partners close shops and museums at weekends , often on Mondays , and for long lunch breaks . |
| 4 | Thus , the food supply from the plankton tends to be seasonal , and for long periods , over vast reaches of the open ocean , it is virtually non-existent . |
| 5 | Aldershot 's neat football , in difficult windy conditions , kept them well in the game and for long spells they were firmly in control . |
| 6 | Lab-Plant has introduced a computer-controlled , electronic stirrer which can be programmed to perform a series of functions automatically and for long periods . |
| 7 | She suffered severely from arthritis , was unable to read for more than short periods of time , was bored and confused by television , and for long periods lay inert , half dozing , half listening to the radio . |
| 8 | She did not believe that she would ever do it , for she told herself that she was free ; she thought that she would probably end by prolonging , in some way , her present situation , by returning for vacations and for long dead summers . |
| 9 | She sat down before the dressing-table , automatically picking up a hairbrush , but the sight of her own reflection in the mirror distracted her , and for long moments she simply stared at her own face , as if seeing it through the eyes of a stranger . |
| 10 | It is clear that over the past year everyone in has worked extremely hard and for long hours . |
| 11 | Undaunted , Ingrid took on the jobs , and through long , exhausting , financially unrewarding slog , completed them . |
| 12 | The scheme , costing £45 million over the next three years , will see the creation of children 's clubs , childminding facilities and extended classes after school and during long holidays . |
| 13 | Love is subtle and grows in the heart only slowly and after long and painstaking work . |
| 14 | It was large and of long standing . |
| 15 | The institution of bishops he defends as convenient and of long standing , rather than as based on Apostolic succession . |
| 16 | In the same period the number of men serving medium sentences ( 18 months to 4 years ) rose by 34 per cent and of long sentences ( 4 years or more ) by no less than 82 per cent . |
| 17 | Witnesses describe gremlins as looking like rabbits or bulldogs , sometimes wearing spats , top hat and breeches , and with long , webbed feet that enable them to move quietly . |
| 18 | The plant is very bushy , and with long stems grows tall . |
| 19 | It is logical to hypothesise that the implantation of refluxed endometrium will be more likely to occur with increased exposure to menstruation : women now experience over 450 menstruations during their reproductive lifetime rather than the 30 to 50 that would be expected without contraception and with long periods of lactation . |
| 20 | The idealised view of the British system is that , under a head of State insulated from politics , generally admired , and with long and varied experience , the government of the day is led by a Prime Minister whose party has been given a parliamentary majority by a mature electorate which has participated in free and open elections . |
| 21 | Radulfus maintained his judicial calm , and the earl 's broad brow was suave and benign , though there was no guessing what went on in the highly intelligent mind behind it ; but Prior Robert and Sub-Prior Herluin sat very erect , stiff in the spine and with long , refined faces sharpened into steel , studiously not looking straight at each other , but maintaining each a bright gaze on distance , and the appearance of considering with magisterial detachment the situation that confronted them . |
| 22 | They were in a rather long , quite narrow chamber , lined with shelves and with long racks with poles . |
| 23 | One was about 20 , 5ft 8in tall and with long side burns . |
| 24 | Hedgelaying Competition , go along and find out more about the traditional skill of hedgelaying with hand tools , Long Acre Wood , park at Lamesley Parish Church and walk up Smithy Lane and into Long Acre Wood near the Saw Mill , follow the marked route to the hedge , 1.30pm . |
| 25 | and along Long Beach |
| 26 | Pronouncing Congress to be ‘ a microscopic minority ’ , he began to give thought to ways of preventing this minority from poisoning the minds of the majority , especially those of the vast array of native collaborators — the patwaris and the chowkidars , the stationmasters and the clerks — on which British rule so visibly depended ; and before long attendance by government employees at meetings of Congress or any other political organization was made illegal . |
| 27 | The often awkward transition from playing covers to playing original material went without a hitch , and before long REM were providing backing on their first album . |
| 28 | Their bodies are streamlined for maximum efficiency in moving through water , and they have evolved a highly sophisticated sonar system to communicate and receive information through water and over long distances . |
| 29 | They saw a large part of their task as negotiating with and between carers and handicapped people — often painstakingly and over long periods — in order to gain a commitment to and an acceptance of a change in lifestyle . |
| 30 | He puts it where he wants it , and over long distances as well . |