Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the retired admiral spent a long time finding our house … ‘ |
| 2 | The 1988–89 Committee spent a long time agonising over the problem of how to keep the broadcasters at arms length , so that their editors would not be able to provide the signal in ways that might be journalistically attractive but would be repugnant to Members . |
| 3 | As Argentina deployed gunboats , the Foreign Office entered a long silence over South Georgia . |
| 4 | The Daily Telegraph carried a long story without mentioning my name , since Michael Berry was well disposed to me and had no wish to cause me embarrassment . |
| 5 | The Daily Telegraph published a long article from me on the subject on its editorial page . |
| 6 | The agronomists ’ reports on the spring-sowing campaign reveal a long list of mainly unfulfilled bureaucratic resolutions passed down from Moscow . |
| 7 | Then the leading comrade makes a long speech ( with pauses for interpretation ) full of statistics about how before liberation the commune used to only produce so many jin per mu ( jin being a measure of weight/capacity , and mu being a measure of land ) and how the commune now produces about 15 times that amount . |
| 8 | Nor does it show how the international sphere affects the long cycle ; no consideration is given to how the international structure of industry affects innovation and the propagation of long waves or how innovation affects industry 's internationalization . |
| 9 | The Black Death began the long process of decline for many , but it rarely wiped out an entire village at a single blow . |
| 10 | The new " Ring " , however , still stages major races and a round the world sports car championship is held over the famous circuit to maintain the long association with one of motor racing 's most forbidding and famous circuits . |
| 11 | The long room contained a long silence . |
| 12 | The legal process takes a long time and the task of getting new Regulations approved remained incomplete when I retired . |
| 13 | When Zeppelin told PHIL KING their next game was on ice , the rotund reviewer expected a long delay ! |
| 14 | His great claim to fame is that he was the first Englishman to build a long and lucrative career out of the dissemination of public news . |
| 15 | She swallowed hard and began , ‘ Well , the Big Bang happened a long time ago . |
| 16 | The ministerial position went a long way towards meeting the US criteria , but the British side had worries as well . |
| 17 | The secret operation followed a long period gathering information on criminals in the town . |
| 18 | N. battus is characterised by having only one set of parallel rays in each bursal lobe while the female worm has a long pointed tail and the large egg is brownish with parallel sides . |
| 19 | ‘ The best way to increase the long run growth rate in the economy is to make markets work better . |
| 20 | The political police in the Soviet Union had a long history stretching back to tsarist times . |
| 21 | If the final syllable contains a long vowel or diphthong , or ends with more than one consonant , that final syllable will be stressed . |
| 22 | While the formal approach has a long tradition , manifested in innumerable volumes of grammar , the functional approach is less well documented . |
| 23 | The WYSIWYG add-in goes a long way to helping you see how your masterpiece will eventually print out — but only approximately ( it 's pretty much like Windows 1-2-3 in that respect ! ) . |
| 24 | Here a narrow gully gave a long , powdery glissade almost to the shores of the frozen lock , which gave an easy highway to within five minutes of our night 's accommodation . |
| 25 | A hundred years of county council government seems a strange reason to create a long distance path , but North Yorkshire County Council thought it a good enough excuse . |
| 26 | The phrase reached its nadir when a British politician threatened a long hot legislative summer ! |
| 27 | A long-stroke engine has a long con-rod , which acts as a longer lever on the crank . |
| 28 | Ca n't you see a reincarnated Grace lashing the Long Room with scorn and fury on hearing the vapid 68 words that purported to explain this summer 's vilest scandal . |
| 29 | Next home was David Lodge in 27 mins. 23 which was a promising effort following a long lay-off due to illness . |
| 30 | A little amiability goes a long way , it would seem , and many of those present felt that Reebok was the unluckiest loser of the night in this category . |