Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] a long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Terry used his limited Arabic to have a long conversation with another visitor who suggested that an American would go home soon with the Irishman and then , after a little while , during which our governments were expected to ‘ make the next step ’ , another American with a Briton and so on .
2 JOHN BARNES last night faced up to the fact that he must make speedy progress to avoid a long spell in the international wilderness .
3 The work of the pre-electric era was the work of preservation : drying and smoking meat , making cheese and hard bread to survive a long winter huddled in a chalet above the animals .
4 Spread the rest on to the biscuits , then pile the biscuits on top of each other to make a long roll .
5 There really is no better way to spend a long weekend , or indeed an entire week , during winter , than in the warm sun of Portugal 's Algarve , Spain 's Costa del Sol or the cooler — though still very comfortable — French region of Calais .
6 A hundred years of county council government seems a strange reason to create a long distance path , but North Yorkshire County Council thought it a good enough excuse .
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