Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Town Trail attempts to link the long history of Northampton and present you , the visitor , with a taste of the heritage which belongs to this handsome town . . |
| 2 | " That would be the seneschal paused , watching one of the apprentice chefs dipping a long ladle into the cauldron the unfortunate attendant had just vacated . |
| 3 | Good selection procedures and thorough briefing sessions go a long way towards making an overseas assignment a success . |
| 4 | A CAB interview with scant attention to emotional problems is generally lengthy because forms are complex ; because benefit calculations take a long time ; because contacting the Department of Social Security on the telephone takes even longer and calculating an equitable distribution of debt repayments longer still . |
| 5 | The job losses reflect a longer term malaise in IBM 's position . |
| 6 | Many mothers with parenting difficulties had a long history of emotional problems themselves , and seemed generally lacking in sensitivity to their children 's anxieties and needs rather than deficient in specific child management techniques . |
| 7 | Between each excitation change the processor executes a WAIT instruction , in which the delay value is counted down to zero ; high delay values produce a long delay time and therefore a low stepping rate . |
| 8 | Those local authorities that are investing in the necessary shredders and mechanical mixers are finding that the savings of landfill charges go a long way towards paying for the environmental gain . |
| 9 | The concepts of crystal settling and convection in magma chambers have a long history r2–6 . |
| 10 | The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers . |
| 11 | In Britain the divisions between the public health , general practice and hospital sectors have a long history of often quite bitter dispute . |
| 12 | Northern coal miners observed a long Christmas break and from time to time proclaimed " gaudy days " on such occasions as hearing the first cuckoo . |
| 13 | Scaggs and his country friends join a long line of top performers who are Lowden fans — Bob Dylan , James Taylor , Van Morrison , Elvis Costello , Mark Knopfler , Andrew Strong and Paul Brady . |
| 14 | In the dusk , the street lamps illuminated the long riverside walk , and patches of light danced on the Thames in the clearness of the evening . |
| 15 | If they are doing purely local journeys , then that may be too much and they may prefer to use the Oxford ringroad , but if they are doing long-distance journeys ten miles is not a very significant addition to their journey in length and the congestion on the Oxford ringroad is such that it may actually be shorter in time terms to go the longer way round in distance . |