Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb base] 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 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 ?
4 ‘ 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 .
5 It is towards high definition programs that take a long time to write .
6 In the hills that side a long valley on the way to Sæbol there is another emergency hut .
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