Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masked by the cold war , it has in practice fulfilled that function for a long time . |
| 2 | there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while . |
| 3 | I stood in front of that fence for a long time , trying to reconstruct the presence of that massive Victorian red sandstone building in which I had spent nearly five sevenths of my life for thirty years . |
| 4 | Love and pride shone from her enormous black eyes as , ever tender , she lifted her grandson and held him against her grubby sweater for a long moment before returning him to his crib . |
| 5 | Angling was controlled by a private club with a long waiting list . |
| 6 | She was a pretty girl , with expressive dark grey eyes , and dark brown hair in a long bob . |
| 7 | Instead that sense has to be nurtured by more direct experience over a long period of time . |
| 8 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 9 | Old Frank Buchman , who kept on this course through a long life of battle , used to tell me . |
| 10 | Indeed , as the indices stubbornly refused to improve , there seemed little prospect that interest rates would not remain at this historically high level for a long period to come . |
| 11 | I think this is a good principle and we hope to continue it , to some degree for a long time yet . ’ |
| 12 | Erm so I do n't think that one 's achievable erm I think what this amounts to is that erm there are two cuts that we do n't agree with er there 's a vast on reserves we do n't agree with but we managed to put forward a thousand pounds for education at the same time erm i this does strike me as a budget of a party which it knows has no prospect of any sort of responsibility in this council for a long time to come . |
| 13 | Neither of the Glovers had used a public telephone for a long while and were astonished to find themselves confronted by a totally unfamiliar contraption . |
| 14 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 15 | me proper meeting for a long time . |
| 16 | done this job for a long time wo n't you ? |
| 17 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
| 18 | Look wh you 're in this business for a long time , things take an awful long time to happen in this world |
| 19 | The explanation is that , given a totally unvarying diet over a long period of time , especially if it is from kittenhood right through into adult life , a cat 's ‘ food variety mechanism ’ gets worn down and is finally switched off altogether . |
| 20 | The shadow Health Secretary , David Blunkett , called it ‘ a damp squib with a long fuse attached to a powder keg ’ , and the Trades Union Congress firecast the plans would cost thousands of jobs . |
| 21 | But I say , it should 've been it should 've been all d I mean everybody 's known about this chiller for a long while and it 's as I say , I mean when was here it was costing a thousand pound a time . |
| 22 | Earlier induction of labour would obviously be preferable for a 40 year old primigravid woman with a long history of infertility , even after an uncomplicated pregnancy , whereas it may be inappropriate for a 25 year old multiparous woman . |
| 23 | Ships did not often come down this coast , and I said to myself , ‘ I 'm going to be on this island for a long time . ’ |
| 24 | It is a slender wraith-like creature with a long tail . |
| 25 | Whatever it was , it was another round in a long war that is not over yet |
| 26 | Whichever it was , it was another round in a long war that is not over yet . |
| 27 | He went on ‘ improving ’ this poem over a long period of years so that the text usually printed shows many alterations from the original . |
| 28 | And needless to say we will never release another CD with a long box . ’ |
| 29 | A 40-year-old man with a long history of schizophrenia was arrested in a public car park while attempting to break into a car to steal a blanket off the back seat . |
| 30 | They would remain stable in this state for a long time as stars like our sun , burning hydrogen into helium and radiating the resulting energy as heat and light . |