Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in the long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , honest advertisement of strength providing cues that can not be faked may count most in the long run . |
| 2 | fixations might do better in the long run by holding out until you 've got enough cash to buy the real thing . |
| 3 | Despite the myths which surround the Act , it turned out in the long term to be quite efficient and reasonably humane , but the threat of transition sparked off another series of troubles in Sussex , the last concerted fling of desperation . |
| 4 | The good effects of war can be detected only in the long term , and there were bad effects too , while the consequences of coalition for the party were immediate and almost wholly negative . |
| 5 | The resale potential of other Anatolian items is less clear , but it seems probable that the finer quality Dobags and the more tribal items , whether village or nomadic , will fare better in the long term than " furnishing " or " decorative " rugs . |
| 6 | He feared the goats only marginally less than the snorting , grinning pigs , and only then because the five nannies and their billy were usually safely tied up in the long grass . |
| 7 | It was thus the internal policies of the United States that determined to a great extent who among the indebted nations won and who lost out in the long debt crisis of the 1980s ( Wellons , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | Behind the facade , behind the glittering ceremony and the IAAF delegates ’ hotels which were far superior to those for the athletes , there was a lot of wrong-doing , not least the cheating that went on in the long jump where they tried to wangle a bronze medal for Evangelisti , the Italian , by inaccurate measuring . |
| 9 | By paying claims in advance , they fear Mr Outhwaite could pay more in the long term . |
| 10 | Another former Conservative Cabinet minister , David Howell , chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee , praised the Budget as a ‘ balanced and prudent ’ statement which would pay off in the long term . |
| 11 | The party leadership 's case — that the Scottish Secretary would be forced to select councillors to sit on the Committee of the Regions from a list supplied by the four parties , and this was a key concession which would pay off in the long term — was acknowledged by committee members . |
| 12 | Whether that would have been , at that time , for the benefit of the mass of the Chinese people we 're talking about erm I do n't think I , I rather think that the er turn that Mao took probably in the long run , in the long term , was to the benefit of the mass of people erm the peasantry , the workers in China because I think the alternative would have been erm international exploitation . |
| 13 | I lay back in the long chair . |
| 14 | ‘ Contacts at professional and academic level , seminars , familiarisation with techniques , will build up a rapport which tends to pay off in the long run , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Mankind will lose out in the long run if wild varieties of crop plant species are allowed to die out as it will mean that |
| 16 | For example , some women in a financial position to stop work and start a family are loath to give up their careers for a period , knowing they may lose out in the long term . |
| 17 | I do have some sympathy for cou councillor I do know this area and I I do know the traffic problems there and and we do really in the long term need to do something about it . |
| 18 | I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness . |
| 19 | I mean you 've got to try and keep yourself afloat , and then even that 's not going to help you , if nobody comes along and picks you up either , so I mean that But I mean I I did n't Oh well I Suppose I could say I gave up hope a few times but obviously if you s The struggle to survive comes through in the long run , and I mean it 's it 's not easy to give up hope , |
| 20 | Although Q ' ; is the socially efficient output , society can not force the monopolist to produce here in the long run . |