Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tabitha wondered how long the woman had been scratching a living on the waterways , complaining to uncaring passengers , never quite summoning up the cash or the strength to take the long haul home . |
| 2 | As outlined earlier , low temperatures past and present are also indicated by the evidence that the Moon has a long history of outer rigidity . |
| 3 | Within the family itself , each member contributes as part of the system , being in some way a member from birth through to death , so that the system has a long history . |
| 4 | I have always maintained , ’ Woolley said with ponderous irony , ‘ that the way to avoid a long argument is to shoot the other man before he starts . |
| 5 | I hear him not answering from where I lie above them with my ear to a hole that the rats made a long , long time ago . |
| 6 | It is not surprising , then , to find that the clause has a long career in the documents . |
| 7 | It seemed to Lefevre that the splash took a long time in coming . |
| 8 | Proponents claim that the plant goes a long way toward addressing the heavily oil dependent state 's energy needs , and , would entail the destruction of at most 2 percent of the Wao Kele tract . |
| 9 | If the individual has a long position , his actual rate of return over the one-year holding period ( rh ) ( assuming T= I ) is . |
| 10 | If the chemical diffuses a long way it is more like shouting and a larger number of cells could receive the signal . |
| 11 | All money purchase schemes are potentially unpredictable , and are especially likely to lose value through monetary inflation ( and not least if the annuitant lives a long time ) unless the annuity is fully index-linked , which is not the case under present legislation . |
| 12 | Soon the traffic began to thin and the road became a long straight fenland route with occasional trees and sporadic bungalows slipping into the dykes . |
| 13 | The Duke held his branch still higher , waving it slowly from side to side , and the piper started a long , echoing note on his drone . |
| 14 | He was a perfectionist , and the job took a long time . |
| 15 | And the City took a long time to wake up to Europe 's moves towards monetary union ; its bid to host a European central bank was made later than most others . |
| 16 | She was always rushing off to the Housing Applicant Office and the interviews took a long time . |
| 17 | A recreation city , apparently , for the officers of the garrison at Silcaster , and the legions tramping the long course of Watling Street . |
| 18 | The chemicals are water-borne and the timber takes a long time to dry out . |
| 19 | In many ways the part of a horseman 's job calling for most of his skill was that concerned with working the land , and using a standard of craftsmanship set immeasurably high both by the tradition of his craft and by the immediate needs of cultivation ; and a horseman served a long and disciplined apprenticeship before he could attain to the standard demanded . |
| 20 | The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic . |
| 21 | There have been hiccups — the UK government decision to introduce eye tests , for example , brought a bulge in demand which has been followed with a corresponding flat patch — but the group reckons the long term is promising as ageing populations and greater access to markets such as India and China boost demand . |
| 22 | There have been hiccups — the UK government decision to introduce eye tests , for example , brought a bulge in demand which has been followed with a corresponding flat patch — but the group reckons the long term is promising as ageing populations and greater access to markets such as India and China boost demand . |
| 23 | Because the drivers had a long record of bad behaviour and convictions no such expectation existed here . |
| 24 | For one thing they are not really cultivated , mostly because the trees take a long time to bear fruit and even then are not very prolific . |
| 25 | The countryman takes a great interest in the weather : he has to because his living is bound up with it ; and he observes it as closely as a scientist watching a long and intricate experiment . |
| 26 | It will also show this combination when a person reads a single sentence and when a person reads a long passage of prose . |
| 27 | I I ca n't comment on on comments that you are referencing , however I will say that in Maryland er we displaced an incumbent vendor who had been there a long time , er that vendor was a bit upset as you might imagine with being displaced as a vendor , and in Maryland we had a situation that kind of evolved into the same kind of political row you would expect when a company loses a long time business . |