Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] 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 | With the Enterprise alone likely to cost over $1 thousand million , its entry into mining seems a very long way off . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well , all I can say is , it is something of which a very small amount goes a very long way . " |
| 5 | Unfortunately a very little amount of oil goes a very long way , ’ he said . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Each of the many feeding individuals in the colony possesses an extremely long tentacle which bears large numbers of stinging cells known as nematocysts . |
| 8 | This is easy enough , but measuring along the coastline requires a very long ruler indeed . |
| 9 | Direct perception by psychics of energy manifestations in the landscape has a very long history . |