Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] a long and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Himalayan skiing has had a long and painfully slow gestation period beginning with the activities of various Indian Army Officers in the early part of the century . |
| 2 | Vindication of the right to vote has a long and proud history . |
| 3 | Conductor and orchestra have had a long and fruitful association — starting in 1963 when David Atherton became the youngest ever conductor at the BBC Proms in London . |
| 4 | As a consequence , the last six years of Henry 's reign had witnessed a long and bitter power struggle between the conservatives led by Gardiner and Norfolk , and the evangelicals led by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer , Sir Anthony Denny , and the Seymour uncles of Prince Edward . |
| 5 | M&TIS Calibration laboratory has had a long and successful association with Rosemount providing calibrations of differential pressure transducers , typically to an accuracy of 0.09% at 500mbar differential and 200 bar static pressure . |