Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's all over for a long time . |
| 2 | If society 's resource could be used to make more output , even the poor might be better off in the long run . |
| 3 | Conversely , some econometricians have argued that it is more cost effective to use a ‘ drip ’ system , advertising more or less continuously over a long period at a very low weight . |
| 4 | He 'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time . |
| 5 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time , ’ he told the ever-comforting Jones , ‘ and shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time and I shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 7 | St Peter walked along silently for a long distance . |
| 8 | Buying a soon-to-be-obsolete car can be a saving in the short term , but not necessarily in the long term . |
| 9 | More noteworthy is the declamatory freedom with which rhythms are interpreted — not only in the long solos for the second piano but also when these are accompanied by the most complicated rhythmic canons in the other instrument . |
| 10 | But er not not for a long time . |
| 11 | Not once in the long years had he attempted to get in touch , to correspond with a daughter he had been all too ready to abandon . |
| 12 | At this point the husband , who had not moved once during his wife 's burial — not even during the long wait for the priest — suddenly fainted to the ground and had to have cold water thrown over him . |
| 13 | Perhaps not even in the long summer that stretched ahead of them . |
| 14 | But we should be further on in the long march from paternalism . |
| 15 | One does not get a sense of a strong need for support from parents to children to be reciprocated — certainly not in the short term , and possibly not in the long term either . |
| 16 | The original pirate radio ship Mi Amigo eventually drifted helplessly on to the Long Sand Head where she sank . |
| 17 | It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing . |
| 18 | Well I think there were niggling little points in all the quarries , the workforce certainly has n't been happy up in for a long time . |
| 19 | In the second-half the Dragons had a strong wind at their backs and almost made good use of it straight away as a long ball found McClean and his shot was pushed round by Westwood . |
| 20 | The light was thickening but the twisted silvery grey trunks with their crusted bark showed up clearly against the long grass where some of last autumn 's apples still lay , puckered and brown . |
| 21 | He laid it carefully out on the long table whilst waving Corbett over . |
| 22 | It means so much to the supporters in the Oxford area , it means so much to the club , I think you 've really got to be up here for a long time to realise just how much it does mean to everybody in this area . |
| 23 | " I always thought that gardens , " said Clara , as they progressed slowly back along the long stretch of grass , and down the steps to the lower level , " I always thought that gardens were for growing flowers in . |
| 24 | They got back together after a long break so he must have liked her as she was . |
| 25 | At the major shows , winners are often exposed to the glare of television lights , and expected to parade for the cameras as well , before journeying back home after a long day . |
| 26 | In clinical case management there is a recognition that the worker is an important resource , and an awareness that the process of assessment and reassessment is a crucial function , to be discharged by someone who knows the client really well over a long period of time . |
| 27 | It seems to even out in the long run , although sometimes one has to give a wry smile when a customer dithers over one of ‘ hers ’ and one of ‘ mine ’ — then chooses ‘ hers ’ . |
| 28 | It was a leafy place ; professional people , merchants , senior civil servants had lived around here for a long time . |
| 29 | While people down south are still lying out in the sun and enjoying their holidays , up here we have to start planning well ahead for the long winter to come . |
| 30 | There are even trailers which are so hip to their self-sufficient status they include sequences which are n't actually in the long version . |