Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [vb past] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new song , ‘ Pussy Cat Meow ’ , celebrates them and a dream Kier had a long time ago . |
| 2 | The immigration issue left a long legacy of US Japanese hostility which surfaced in the injustices suffered by many US citizens of Japanese descent during the war with Japan , 1941–5 . |
| 3 | Friedman 's statement of the natural rate hypothesis went a long way towards reconciling such evidence with basic classical theory . |
| 4 | The tocsin bell was balanced on an iron ring and from its great brass tongue hung a long piece of cord . |
| 5 | And sewed on the sewing machine and then painted them all with raw linseed oil but raw linseed oil took a long while to dry but they soft . |
| 6 | Cancer research had a long tradition of support from private contributions , but new charities devoted to particular diseases , such as arthritis and rheumatism , leukaemia , and muscular dystrophy , were founded and became a great source of strength to workers whose interests had or might have application to the desired objectives . |
| 7 | Films were cast for an international market in the Hollywood of the 1920s ; and international press syndication had a long history . |
| 8 | Fish-bone paste and heated animal glue made a long process of bonding work , whilst injection moulding and plastics did not exist . |
| 9 | Indeed , the over spill factor had a longer history than a concern with post-coal industrial restructuring , since the plans of the 1940s and early 1950s had assumed stable employment in coal . |