Example sentences of "[adv] long [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself .
2 So long as does increase and the organic composition of capital is not increasing rapidly , it will represent future consumption by productive workers , but will still be considered as a part of the surplus-value .
3 ‘ Very like ! ’ he said , knowing it was true , and knowing that he would not hold back so long as to let it be true .
4 Again this is a key finding , for little can be done about speeds , safety and environmental traffic management issues so long as housing areas have through traffic inflicted upon them .
5 The list of sins , venial and otherwise , was long , but not so long as to come as a surprise .
6 He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following .
7 You can concentrate on two things for only so long as changing positions to help the photographer and holding the adult shearwater proved .
8 Within the permitted development rules for home extensions , this means no permission is needed , so long as adding the garage does n't result in the volume of the house being increased by more than the permitted development allowance .
9 But so long as winning elections is seen as a mere matter of tweaking a market image , or of changing a brand title or logo , the whole enterprise is doomed to failure .
10 Building them often took twice as long as planned , and costs were two to three times the original estimate .
11 It also criticized the manufacturers and contractors for lax planning and supervision of the project , the first aircraft having taken nearly twice as long as planned to build .
12 It had taken twice as long as planned due to the heat and it was decided that a 6.00am start was required on the second day .
13 BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place .
14 In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building .
15 Unemployment benefit is limited to only one year , and , unlike other national insurance benefits , such as an old-age pension , can not be drawn for as long as needed .
16 As soon as one person 's work has been built into the computer , it stays there and goes on working for as long as needed .
17 Creating a game from a film costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can take as long as making the movie .
18 Laura , desperately disappointed , tried to be a polite hostess for as long as required but when she finally retired found Bernard had locked the bedroom door .
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