Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [prep] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | High rocky cliffs pitted with little sandy coves melt away into long stretches of silvery beach . |
| 2 | In a touring boat we want long powerful strokes to go fast over long distances . |
| 3 | At times like these , while I am watching a midnight sunset or sunrise , I shed a tear for those poor campers putting up with long hours of dark in the Himalayas or the like . |
| 4 | If astronauts go off on long journeys , in any direction in three-dimensional space , they 'll get to the boundary of our universe . |
| 5 | Inevitably , men pushed together for long periods of time became edgy and , by the time the prison was freed from the grip of the snow , three men had been knifed ( one of whom had lost a kidney ) and another had been beaten severely with a pool cue . |
| 6 | Neither did the men gliding by in long jellabas and pointed hoods . |
| 7 | ABOVE Experiments can be done to find out how ditches silt up over long periods of time , how earthworks erode , and how finds move . |
| 8 | These start off usually with a thin , gentle slithering sound of sliding boulders on the scree slope , which abruptly gives way to a much louder , roaring collapse as the main mass of rock falls away and hurtles downhill , and then afterwards minor falls continue intermittently for long periods . |
| 9 | Many other jobs involve ‘ hard stress ’ of this latter kind — foreign exchange dealers and nurses work intensely for long hours . |