Example sentences of "at a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a long meeting of board members on Monday , Burns was asked to resign and refused . |
| 2 | Her attempts to promote sales of the book by signing copies at a Long Island store ended abruptly when , following the bomb threat , police evacuated the store until closing time . |
| 3 | Four clerks sit at a long desk , chatting . |
| 4 | He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building . |
| 5 | Next we shall look at a long solenoid filled with a high-permeability magnetic material as shown in Fig. 3.9 ( p. 73 ) . |
| 6 | The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor . |
| 7 | She spent nearly all the time at a long meeting . |
| 8 | Karen spent nearly all the time at a long meeting . |
| 9 | ‘ The answer to both your questions is yes , ’ she told the girl sitting at a long table on the far side of the room . |