Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 And it 's easier in the short term not to have In the long term you get more problems .
2 First , wind velocity is measured at a given observation point and refers solely to that point , for all that it may be convenient to show it on a chart as an arrow apparently extending for a long distance .
3 Curwen 's interest in agriculture probably dated from a long journey through Europe following the death of his first wife in 1778 .
4 The overall effect was that total spending and hence taxation tended to rise faster than the Cabinet really wanted in the long term .
5 Nevertheless , it is an early maturing variety well suited to the long ripening period of a northern wine region .
6 Paolucci claims ( in Beccaria 1963 , p. ix ) that Dei Delitti e delle Pene has had ‘ more practical effect than any other treatise ever written in the long campaign against barbarism in criminal law and procedure ’ .
7 The first summons habitually began with a long and belligerent explanation of why some other weekend was not possible .
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