Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " 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 But er not not for a long time .
10 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 .
11 Perhaps not even in the long summer that stretched ahead of them .
12 But we should be further on in the long march from paternalism .
13 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 .
14 The original pirate radio ship Mi Amigo eventually drifted helplessly on to the Long Sand Head where she sank .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 He laid it carefully out on the long table whilst waving Corbett over .
20 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 .
21 " 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 .
22 They got back together after a long break so he must have liked her as she was .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 ’ .
26 It was a leafy place ; professional people , merchants , senior civil servants had lived around here for a long time .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Once workers have installed Britain 's new cable , no one expects that the country will want to replace it — at least not for a long time .
30 Lord Berner 's Triumph of Neptune was another work he conducted quite frequently over a long period , and he made two recordings of the ballet suite .
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