Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | But so long as the company 's objective is maximum profits , a concern with the welfare of third parties is necessarily an instrumental one : it is a means of protecting profitability in the long term . |
| 2 | It may not even prove to be possible unless the criteria are very broad , and therefore ambiguous , because of the problems of recording mastery of a long list of criteria . |
| 3 | Growing your own vegetables is much the cheapest way of avoiding pesticides in the long run , but in the short term it may be possible to get unsprayed produce from someone with a large garden or allotment . |
| 4 | We should remember that it was ill the employers " interests to claim that it was not worth providing women with a long training because they would waste it by leaving early ; while it was in the trade union 's interest to claim that women were incompetent because they had only received a short training . |
| 5 | Is not it clear that the excellent record of business investment in the United Kingdom reflects the fact that business men recognise the Government 's commitment to containing inflation in the long term ? |
| 6 | ‘ It looks as though this is the prime mechanism for reducing productivity at the long term test , ’ says Brown . |
| 7 | Her attempts to promote sales of the book by signing copies at a Long Island store ended abruptly when , following the bomb threat , police evacuated the store until closing time . |
| 8 | May I begin by paying tribute to the long and distinguished career of the late Baroness Hart of South Lanark ? |