Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This often results in delay — postponing the choice by finding an excuse or setting an unnecessarily long timescale . |
| 2 | BETWEEN twenty and thirty million years ago a new sort of mammal evolved that had an unusually long nose . |
| 3 | For a moment I toyed with the idea of getting back to the ship , lifting off and going a comfortingly long way away . |
| 4 | But it 's expensive , useless as an insulator when wet and takes a very long time to dry . |
| 5 | Because of their traditional background they are easy to handle and have a notably long life : one cow produced and reared 30 calves of her own . |
| 6 | A good resolution before you exchange contracts would be to stand back and have a really long look at the wood ! |
| 7 | It was difficult to x-ray his leg so far up , and as it was a small machine and needed a relatively long exposure it was hard to get a clear picture with him shaking as the poor boy was doing by this time . |
| 8 | Tutilo started and shook himself , and took an unexpectedly long moment to think before he answered : ‘ It was late , past time for Compline when I started . ’ |
| 9 | The record 's gone through a lot of transformations and taken a hellaciously long time to get done . ’ |
| 10 | Diplodocus , in fact , reached 28 metres in length and had an extraordinarily long neck and whip-like tail . |
| 11 | Another way of stating this point would be to say that the revival and growth of social movements in those societies which are both economically advanced and have a fairly long tradition of democracy , is a major aspect of that ‘ self-production ’ of society referred to earlier , which exists in some degree already , but is still more an ideal representation of a future form of society , ‘ free of domination ’ , in which the collectivity would really govern itself , by procedures of rational discussion among equal citizens . |