Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I do that with a , you know when I 'm sort of on about a long delivery talk about |
| 2 | What had she been doing on her own up there by the long barrow ? |
| 3 | Mary was still a good looking woman and Sid had admired her from afar for a long time . |
| 4 | They were in there for a long time . |
| 5 | Have n't seen Dan in there for a long time , I thought he 'd left Lionel and gone off to get a a highly lucrative job somewhere You do n't somehow expect to see a , a young man with a university degree working in your local green grocer do you ? |
| 6 | Been in there for a long time are n't they ? |
| 7 | got nice er double decker bus type thing with a video player on and all that , mind you it should do really cos they 're on there for a long time |
| 8 | Push needles back ALL AT ONCE with a long ruler or similar , until the heads are held by the fabric . |
| 9 | Day Four : A leisurely departure at 10.00am for the long voyage to Trier where you should be safely moored by 3.30pm . |
| 10 | Since much of equity returns are in the form of capital gains , at least in the long run , which are taxed only on realisation , personal tax on equity returns is generally in effect much lower than that on the returns to investing in a company 's debt . |
| 11 | For the one characteristic organization theorists ( Blau and Scott 1962 ; Etzioni 1961 ; Parsons 1963 ) agree on is that corporations , like all organizations , are primarily orientated towards the achievement of a particular goal — profit — at least in the long run . |
| 12 | As you are reading this , the chances are that you , too , have tried diets , failed ( at least in the long term ) , and then restarted . |