Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | sorry , erm this budget has a very long gestation period er I 'm on version twelve I think at the last count and I hope there is n't gon na be a version thirteen . |
| 2 | This temperature can be considered in effect to be the limiting value T g would reach in a hypothetical experiment taking an infinitely long time . |
| 3 | The news that she had in fact been successful in her interview went a very long way to ease her bruised feelings — so much so that when the day dawned when she was to start her new job she almost forgot to pull her hair back into a screwed-up knot , and to don her glasses . |
| 4 | With the Enterprise alone likely to cost over $1 thousand million , its entry into mining seems a very long way off . |
| 5 | We have then , in the mid 1980s , a situation where two communities start to talk and meet with each other following a very long silence . |
| 6 | Thus it would seem that the ‘ dawn of civilisation ’ , so often quoted in a context suggesting that it represents a fairly finite occurrence taking a relatively short space of time , did , in all probability cover a very long time indeed , perhaps many thousands of years . |
| 7 | backing up , when I er , at , at the appeal , the medical centre made a very long presentation over the proximity , the closeness to their erm , surgery and they argued about the height of buildings , now it got passed as sheltered united , er , which means elderly and quiet occupancy . |
| 8 | In terms of a human life-span , the development of a hill-slope takes a very long time , and one could not stay around long enough to test alternative theories of hill-slope development if observation of processes acting on the present landscape produced the only relevant data . |
| 9 | Apprenticeship training is essentially about ensuring standards of workmanship and characteristically it appears at first sight to take an unconscionably long time . |
| 10 | Well , all I can say is , it is something of which a very small amount goes a very long way . " |
| 11 | Unfortunately a very little amount of oil goes a very long way , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The radioactive potassium has a very long half-life ( 1250 million years ) so that the amount lost is extremely small relative to the total amount of potassium present and can not be measured . |
| 13 | Each of the many feeding individuals in the colony possesses an extremely long tentacle which bears large numbers of stinging cells known as nematocysts . |
| 14 | In some ways those days when she had lived in Paula 's shadow seemed a very long time ago , in others they might have been just yesterday . |
| 15 | This is easy enough , but measuring along the coastline requires a very long ruler indeed . |
| 16 | Direct perception by psychics of energy manifestations in the landscape has a very long history . |
| 17 | The annual camp for secondary schools Cadet Corps gave me my first holiday away from home , but I was so homesick that a fortnight seemed an impossibly long time before I could get back to my parents and family . |
| 18 | Bentley pianos … also of Woodchester finally closed this year jending a similarly long tradition . |
| 19 | However , there 's no doubt the blitz on the weeds on our return from holiday took a disproportionately long spell . |
| 20 | But both research and theory into the structure and mechanisms of conversation have a very long way to go . |
| 21 | The effect was electric : the girl was released within a few days ; the man remained in jail and in fact served a very long sentence . |
| 22 | The knife he slid towards her and into the butter had a menacingly long shadow blade . |
| 23 | The size of the palazzo , and the intricacy of its design ensured a very long building period , the main staircase being completed only at the end of the century , after Alessi 's death . |