Example sentences of "of [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the opposite extreme of a pulse of extremely long duration , the Fourier spectrum only contains extremely low frequencies . |
| 2 | At this stage the wing A is still exaggerated , but would however be reduced provided the prevailing wind , X , was of sufficiently long duration . |
| 3 | You get sort of extra long |
| 4 | In the eight stage IV patients in whom the follow up was of specially long duration ( median 6 years ) , a complete remission was initially obtained with cyclophosphamide in every case and patients whose disease recurred several years after the initial treatment remained sensitive to monochemotherapy . |
| 5 | I made a couple of moderately long speeches on the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill , but we are not discussing existing procedure . |
| 6 | We are still passionately committed to our work in Africa , where over the past years we 've made 282 grants in 29 countries in support of both long term development and emergency work . |
| 7 | Many races have traditions of exceptionally long life amongst their early forbears . |
| 8 | She also has to wear a set of hideously long fingernails . |
| 9 | finding of an equivalent partial report advantage for left and right hemifields was due to their use of relatively long delay intervals ( at least 300 msec. ) between stimulus presentation and partial report cue . |
| 10 | He said that the departure from Kabrit was a delightfully vague affair with nobody really having any clear idea of how long they were going to be away for , and not giving two hoots anyway . |
| 11 | I know sometimes erm people when they got their benefit , would try and do shopping for two weeks , but even that was unrealistic of how long they were , what they were buying was going to last for two weeks . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've lost track of how long it is now we 've been neighbours . |
| 13 | He was well aware of how long Marie stayed here and he could calculate just exactly when she would be passing . |
| 14 | She had genuinely possessed no idea of how long servants worked , and for how little . |
| 15 | The triple computer system contained confidential clinical data including details of how long patients had to live . |
| 16 | Precautions have to be taken to avoid the possibility of excessively long search times or of failure to retrieve records held in a direct file . |
| 17 | I keep saying when they get sort of quite long that I 'll have them properly shaped and |
| 18 | Long standing chronic disease can be cured more quickly using this scale ( Some cases of bronchial asthma of very long standing have been cured in three to four months , and cancer cases within six to eight months ) . |
| 19 | All they need to do is write a song about a hotel and , er , walk around with an armful of very long fish indeed , and America is theirs . |
| 20 | Following news that it was working on a 64-bit Sparc RISC version of very long instruction word technology ( UX No 381 ) , Bell Atlantic Corp , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , is now claiming that there will be a multi-processing , superscalar Sparc Unix machine around by the end of the year that will incorporate the VLIW Trace scheduling compilers which originated from now defunct Multiflow Computers Inc . |
| 21 | Erm I think that the exercise on ponds is not of very long standing . |
| 22 | Of very long standing . ’ |
| 23 | In one form or another these issues , which are really all variations of the same issue , are of very long standing , but the style in which they are presented is liable to change very rapidly . |
| 24 | This is an example of very long baseline interferometry ( VLBI ) . |
| 25 | Commented development director Ian Coull : ‘ The clerks of works have provided a very valuable role to the JS development programme over the years , and within the team there was a number of very long serving JS staff , whose knowledge and wise counsel will be hard to replace . ’ |
| 26 | I have no interest myself in Michener or a lot of the writers of very long sagas erm who have made a great deal of money out of it . |