Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [coord] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indulging in litigation may mean that you have to expend substantial sums of money and wait a long time before achieving victory ; to lose could prove very costly . |
| 2 | The writing was on the wall , however , and the fateful day eventually arrived in 1906 , when the last of the Eastington mills finally closed , putting large numbers out of work and ending a long history of cloth making in the parish . |
| 3 | A pupil of Dent Grammar School , Sedgwick became one of the founders of the science of geology and had a long career as Professor of Geology at Cambridge University , where he was buried in 1873 at the age of ninety-eight . |
| 4 | This lovely Victorian house is quite blissfully situated amongst a cluster of houses , in the village of Alnmouth , right on the banks of the river estuary , with only a small garden and a ‘ no through ’ road between it and the beach — it is brilliant for tumbling out of bed and enjoying a long walk on almost deserted sands . |
| 5 | Sylvie gazed out at the eternity of blue and took a long , deep breath . |
| 6 | A tightly compacted surface of graded stones kept water at bay and lasted a long time . |