Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the old man picked up a long piece of wood . |
| 2 | They have mail tunics and basic helmets whilst their banner is a typical ‘ dragon ’ or tubular device carried on a long shaft . |
| 3 | The feeding process takes quite a long time , depending of course on the sizes of the individuals concerned and various environmental factors , such as temperature ( see p. 303 ) . |
| 4 | The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way . |
| 5 | Using artificial light to break up a long night into two short ones promotes the flowering of long-day plants and hinders the flowering of short-day ones . |
| 6 | The roots of the UK 's industrial decline go back a long way , certainly more than a century . |
| 7 | From the bridge there is a rack curving right ; deep flow starts on the right and ends up on left then there is steady flow curving round a long left bend for ½ mile to S bend left , right , left , all grade I/II rock gardens with plenty of water and routes . |
| 8 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |
| 9 | At that time , European scholars were fascinated by the technological and , as they saw them , moral triumphs of their age , and obsessed with the necessity for progress in all fields of human endeavour ; they felt a positive obligation to contemplate continually the long , hard road along which man had struggled in his search for perfection . |
| 10 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |