Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other quick-growing plants are tomatoes and runner beans , but these plants that mature in the autumn are not really suitable for schools that have a long August holiday , as continuity is lost , even if help is available to care for the plants . |
| 2 | We are committed to putting money and people into the sort of programmes that take a long time to make . |
| 3 | It was when I got into the Law Courts and began a long series of litigation lasting twenty five years " . |
| 4 | They said they would cut both babies ' throats and held a long kitchen knife to Salman 's throat , while Tanwaru was holding the child |
| 5 | He did his teeth and took a long shower , first hot then cold . |
| 6 | I became especially interested in apes and made a long study of chimpanzees . |
| 7 | But the headlining act — a quartet splicing the former Miles Davis guitarist John Scofield with the British saxophonist Andy Sheppard — struck fireworks that went a long way towards helping the audience breathe out after some dodgy moments during the presentations . |
| 8 | Is he aware that even when people are examined , are found to have cataracts and wait a long time for the operation , some of them — such as a 91-year-old constituent of mine — are told that Royal Oldham hospital , which has been granted trust status , does not have the money to provide the necessary medicines and has money to help only the elderly ? |
| 9 | ‘ I think it 's a waste of time growing vegetables such as sprouts and cabbages that take a long time to grow and are cheap in the shops , but I enjoy growing beans , carrots and marrows . |
| 10 | It is towards high definition programs that take a long time to write . |
| 11 | It was one of those accidents that took a long time to begin to feel serious . |
| 12 | The front of the building has six recessed Egyptian lotus columns flanking the windows and supporting a long entablature . |
| 13 | In the hills that side a long valley on the way to Sæbol there is another emergency hut . |
| 14 | I peeled off my clothes and took a long shower — it would be a long time before I took a bath again , and certainly not round at Sunil 's — and treated myself to a proper shave with hot water and a razor . |
| 15 | Historical events that happened a long time ago . |