Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the press in the other European member states rightly concentrated on the long list of measures that were agreed and signed in the Maastricht treaty . |
| 2 | And it 's easier in the short term not to have In the long term you get more problems . |
| 3 | People were most conscious of how far they were from their family in times of crisis , when someone was sick or dying and they were a couple of continents away separated by a long slow haul by boat and train . |
| 4 | First , wind velocity is measured at a given observation point and refers solely to that point , for all that it may be convenient to show it on a chart as an arrow apparently extending for a long distance . |
| 5 | The early morning was cool and birds still chattered in the long grasses along the line . |
| 6 | Curwen 's interest in agriculture probably dated from a long journey through Europe following the death of his first wife in 1778 . |
| 7 | The overall effect was that total spending and hence taxation tended to rise faster than the Cabinet really wanted in the long term . |
| 8 | Elsewhere in his speech Gladstone specifically referred to the long runs of periodicals in the library as being of interest to him as he could not keep them in his own library . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it is an early maturing variety well suited to the long ripening period of a northern wine region . |
| 10 | These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate . |
| 11 | Paolucci claims ( in Beccaria 1963 , p. ix ) that Dei Delitti e delle Pene has had ‘ more practical effect than any other treatise ever written in the long campaign against barbarism in criminal law and procedure ’ . |
| 12 | However , horns were generally seen as desirable , especially for harnessing plough oxen , and it was not until the eighteenth century that Scottish farmers began to breed selectively for the polled factor in order to make the cattle of Galloway easier to manage on the long droves to the London markets . |
| 13 | The students all studied through a long distance learning scheme with four tutors based in different parts of Britain . |
| 14 | The first summons habitually began with a long and belligerent explanation of why some other weekend was not possible . |
| 15 | Diets often fail in the long term because they are too demanding on will-power . |