Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experts now solve the problem by placing them in a separate order which , they believe , branched off a very long time ago and did not lead to more advanced forms . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , we 've decided to do the chart together , ’ Belinda answered , looking up an impossibly long way to meet his blue gaze as she spoke . |
| 3 | Conduction of heat occurs only very slowly through rock , and if this is the only mechanism operating uplift will occur over a very long period — something of the order of 100 Ma . |
| 4 | ‘ Oliver has drawn up an impossibly long list of games , ’ Marjorie said . |
| 5 | Even if that figure were now to be drastically reduced orthodox interpretations of the fossil evidence together with orthodox evolutionary theory would require that the last generalized man/ape , the " missing link " of the early Darwinian imagination , must have died out an exceedingly long time ago . |
| 6 | The drink theme too , broadly understood , goes back a very long way . |
| 7 | Rudston 's history goes back a very long way to Neolithic times and it is believed to be the oldest inhabited village in England . |
| 8 | ‘ There is a strong culture of control at AT&T that goes back an awfully long way , ’ observes Charles Heckscher , a labour-relations academic who has advised AT&T on its ambitious plan . |
| 9 | You have to go back a very long way indeed to a more decorous age when politicians did n't use the memoir as a weapon for reopening old wounds . |
| 10 | Harry Curwen , his friend and cycling companion , had a story that Father wanted to ride up a very long hill on one of their excursions but fell off near the top . |
| 11 | Yes I I remember we went down a very long cul-de-sac at one stage on self containment did n't we . |
| 12 | To invest such works a besieging army would have to be at least 700,000 strong , and London would be able to hold out a very long time , as the example of Paris showed ; the Prussian siege there lasted five months , and had things gone a little differently Paris might have been relieved . |
| 13 | What river engineers have begun to do is to rediscover their roots , and these , as we shall see , go back a very long way . |
| 14 | Of course we go back an awful long way do n't we ? |
| 15 | ‘ Jeffrey and I go back an awful long way , and it makes a lot of sense for him to be published by us on both sides of the Atlantic , ’ Mr Bell commented . |
| 16 | Fact : The authors have chosen here to quote undiscounted and out-of-date figures although they make much play of discount rates elsewhere in their article and must be aware that the decommissioning costs concerned arise over a very long period of time stretching to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond . |
| 17 | For , despite acquiring a mass of archival material stretching over a very long period of time , the Chinese never developed anything corresponding to the modern Western concept of history . |
| 18 | There are many more , but you now have enough to make up a very long list of counting numbers using prime numbers and multiplication . |