Example sentences of "[conj] long [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be inappropriate if he is very young , or long since gone , but it can be worthwhile . |
| 2 | The industries which used to provide employment for inner city residents have either died or long since gone to the new towns or to green field sites and industrial estates on the outskirts of the towns . |
| 3 | Cottages dotted the waterside through the village ; and anything which had gone into the water some hours ago must , in any case , either have been brought ashore there already or long since have passed through , before the general alarm went out . |
| 4 | Pitts Mill , now sometimes known as Oaklands Farm Mill , has been luckier and has , at least structurally , survived , although long since stripped of its manufacturing machinery . |
| 5 | from a star that long ago blinked out . |
| 6 | The photographs are an act of reclamation of a kind of urban territory that long ago stopped being landscape . |
| 7 | Small coats with hoods , sent to the family from abroad , and long since grown out of , were taken away , together with twenty-eight videos . |
| 8 | The fourth sister , the one who had found the child in a basket on the banks of the river , and insisted on adopting him , had married Burraburiash of Babylon and long since left the Black Land . |
| 9 | A landscape obviously planned , disciplined , tamed long , long since , and long since abandoned to the river , the seasons and the sky ; and not a human soul in sight . |
| 10 | Monumental architecture in Greece was first developed in temples and long largely confined to sanctuaries ; and sculpture in the archaic period and even after is exclusively associated with religion . |
| 11 | Mr Ceausescu has not allowed any Soviet forces to be stationed there , and long ago ordered all Soviet military advisers to leave . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , it was not long before control was achieved , and the method used was that which had already and long ago done for the peoples of the old world . |
| 13 | Far away and long ago seemed the world after the War , into which he had emerged out of the army with the feeling that his vote and the new Labour Government would rebuild England . |
| 14 | And taken seriously not only there but here as well , by critics who themselves long for success , and long too to lay bare their own poor breasts . |
| 15 | All you need for each one is a piece of knitting beginning with a hem at the wrist , wide enough to go round the hand and long enough to reach easily to the base of the fingers . |
| 16 | Every year the total amount of pollutants emitted by vehicles in the UK would fill a tunnel 10 metres wide and long enough to encircle the earth . |
| 17 | His hair was dark and long enough to fall over his eyebrows when it dropped forward . |
| 18 | For a standard rose , cut a strip of hessian sacking about 3–4 inches ( 8–10cm ) wide , and long enough to go round the plant stem twice . |
| 19 | There would be no engagement for her , but she felt that Claudine would cling hard enough and long enough to win . |
| 20 | I then knit a piece of lace fabric just wide enough to stretch round the base of the cone and long enough to cover it . |
| 21 | The hide was twelve inches deep , both wide and long enough to fit one man and his equipment in . |
| 22 | Colour another piece of fondant black , roll out and cut three strips about 2cm ( ¾inch ) wide and long enough to wrap around the rocket . |
| 23 | A short stop in Delhi , but long enough to enable several sets of Rohan travel kit to get splattered with dye in the Hindi festival of colours , Holi . |
| 24 | I was only a short time standing there , but long enough to take in the vessel 's lines , the quite dainty sheer , her size and the layout of the masts and rigging . |
| 25 | We need a time limit which is short enough to be attractive but long enough to effect a result . |
| 26 | ‘ But long enough to fetch the pole ? ’ |
| 27 | But long enough to learn something about the man . |
| 28 | She could only stay a short time , but long enough to hear John thank her for the gift of her daughter . |
| 29 | Those years were not long enough to do what he had hoped to do for Durham , but long enough to know what needed to be done . |
| 30 | Middlesbrough-born , though long since moved to Billingham , he began refereeing in 1944 aboard HMS Nelson . |