Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] a [adv] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control . |
| 2 | Most kids have a pretty long list : ‘ Please may I have a Barbie doll with her van and a oops a daisy doll hands down games bensing babys teddy bears leggo my dolley suprise hungry hippoes . ’ |
| 3 | Microlights take a bit of getting used to ( 1,000 feet looks an awfully long way down ) , but they are marvellous viewing platforms . |
| 4 | Hon. Members on both sides have argued that the processing of applications takes an awfully long time . |
| 5 | They may suck on it until it dissolves sufficiently to swallow rather than chew it and so meal-times take a very long time . |
| 6 | Look wh you 're in this business for a long time , things take an awful long time to happen in this world |
| 7 | Beginning with efforts to rid Britain herself of slaves , traversing the abolition and emancipation campaigns and the less dramatic struggle to suppress the international trade in slaves and assist liberation in foreign countries , British abolitionists had an exceptionally long history as reformers . |
| 8 | Flowers such as strelitzias , anthuriums and orchids last a very long time and are well worth taking home — some flower shops will pack them specially for export . |
| 9 | The subordinate status of professionals lasted a very long time indeed . |
| 10 | An alternative policy advocates a single large daily dose of aminoglycosides , such as 240 mg instead of 80 mg eight hourly , since the antibacterial activity is related to the dose and these agents exert a relatively long antibiotic effect , at least in vitro . |
| 11 | You must then use these few seconds of relief from your negative thoughts to employ a more long term means of distraction to prevent the thoughts returning . |
| 12 | One of the problems they face , however , is that hotels have a relatively long pay-back period . |
| 13 | Earth science papers have a very long period of use , compared to physics or engineering , but there is variation between sub-disciplines . |
| 14 | For analogue sound-recording , experience has shown that the metal masters used in the process of pressing disc copies have a very long life . |
| 15 | Bivalves seem generally to have evolved at a slow canter rather than a brisk gallop ( see ammonites pp. 73–6 ) and some living bivalves have a very long ancestry ; the small sized genus ( Nucula ) has relatives in Ordovician rocks not very different from Recent species . |