Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] long as " in BNC.

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1 To take an obvious case , modern manufacturing industries can only go on so long as there are capitalists and workers .
2 ‘ We 'll get flung off in a minute , but keep it up as long as possible . ’
3 Additionally , a more flexible attitude by social services to enable the young person without fully satisfactory living arrangements to go to , to stay on as long as necessary at the home , would be preferable to sticking rigidly to a somewhat arbitrary age cut-off time .
4 ‘ Very like ! ’ he said , knowing it was true , and knowing that he would not hold back so long as to let it be true .
5 At Garrigues , most of us tried to hold out as long as possible , preferring constipation to the risks of having a crap .
6 Well erm you kept it out as long as possible but the weather spoilt it and the more you turned it , the bla blacker it came .
7 The one thing that seems to be doing now is to string it out as long as possible .
8 Exporters , on the other hand , will hold back as long as possible before shipping their exports : if the rate does fall , they will earn more sterling per dollar 's worth of exports .
9 Informed sources say neither the more realistically-minded East German leaders nor the Russians believe that any sensible changes can be brought about so long as Mr Honecker , 77 , whose attitudes have become particularly rigid in recent months , is at the helm .
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