Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The small size of the private-rented sector and the difficulties which council house tenants face in moving between local authority areas have for a long time constituted major barriers to long distance migration by lower-income workers ( Robertson , 1979 ; Hughes and McCormick , 1981 ; OPCS , 1983 ; Hamnett , 1984 ) .
2 Pipe cutters consist of a long pair of handles , with a very heavy bicycle-chain-type construction with cutting wheels in the centre .
3 The reason for all this is because carp are very hard fish to catch and carp fishermen fish for a long period of time often a few nights and days .
4 However , governments have for a long time been divided over how large a merger must be before it passes out of national hands to Brussels .
5 It is precisely because market forces have in the long run caught up with the operation of the CAP , as they inevitably would , that we are in such trouble .
6 Four clerks sit at a long desk , chatting .
7 She has already suffered more than most adults suffer during a long lifetime .
8 Shale sections benefit from a long period with 0.25 µm powder , as this gives very slow removal of material without plucking of quartz grains .
9 As was noted in Chapter 4 , local education authorities have for a long time had a duty to provide special education for handicapped children .
10 There are three staircases in the house , including a great one of oak which leads right up to the second floor , where the rooms are spacious — not designed for servants — and the views stretch to the Long Mynd .
11 Libraries and librarians have for a long time sought to play a role in the educational development of young children in the formative and primary years , particularly in the simple stimulation of the reading habit .
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