Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [noun] [prep] a long " in BNC.

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1 The anarchist , or more accurately anarcho-syndicalist , CNT ( National Confederation of Labour ) had been founded in 1910–11 ; its main bastions were Catalonia , where socialist strength in the working class was virtually non-existent ; Andalusia , where anarchism drew vigour from a long tradition of rural insurrectionism and millenarianism ; Zaragoza ; and parts of Asturias , Valencia and Galicia .
2 SET IN the dipping wooded hills of Lambton Park , through which the wide and tidal Wear cuts a deep valley , this grandest of early Georgian houses looks south down a long wide avenue , smothered solid with daffodils in the spring .
3 Nkrumah reassured Macmillan in a long letter ( 26 September 1961 ) .
4 The Grantley Ripper looked set for a long reign of terror .
5 The clearing house then matches long and short positions and assigns a short to make delivery to a long .
6 Always Defect resists invasion for a long time .
7 The large amounts of data needed for such an analysis were obtained by means of a participant observation method which allowed the investigator to record speakers over a long period , returning to collect more data if specific gaps emerged in the course of the analysis ( cf. 3.1 ) .
8 Iron fittings could replace wooden components gradually , allowing major alterations to take place over a long period .
9 It then lends the money to house purchasers for a long period of time by granting mortgages ( typically these are paid back over 20 to 30 years ) .
10 It is easy enough to programme a computer to direct spacecraft towards a long succession of likely stars , to carry out simple tests to establish whether any of the planets of those stars might be capable of sustaining life , and , when appropriate , to dump consignments of spores into the planet 's atmosphere .
11 In a poll , published last week , asking voters to rank in order of priority the issues they most wanted discussed during the election campaign , unemployment came top by a long way , followed by worries about the funding of the badly-indebted State pension and social security fund , and then education and training .
12 With the conquest of Normandy , however , Philip-Augustus gained control of a long stretch of coastline opposite England , from which he could also ‘ oversee ’ Brittany , while access from the mouth of the Seine gave him a means of developing trade and a wider market .
13 The three figures were now almost at the road and out in the open when Taff opened fire with a long burst .
14 The child who uses goed or comed is guilty of over-generalisation , while in sign the use of repetition to convey occurrence over a long time would be appropriate in WAIT-WAIT-WAIT , meaning ‘ wait for ages ’ but not in KEEP-KEEP-KEEP , where it would probably mean to ‘ keep three ’ things rather than to ‘ keep over time ’ .
15 Most sufferers do n't realise their chiggers have departed because the eschars remain itchy for a long time afterwards .
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