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

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1 However , the level of total exports and of exports of manufactures rose throughout the long boom and the 1970s .
2 The words arrived on a long feather of smoke .
3 The Institute of Economic Affairs had for a long time been polemicising against the extension of state activity on the grounds that it restricted choice , led to dependency and reduced the motivation to work , and fostered economic inefficiency in comparison with ‘ private enterprise ’ .
4 Taxis waited in a long queue to ferry them away , while others struggled up the stairs with cases or bags , determined to make their way by other means .
5 Folk myths and wisdoms survived for a long time .
6 The two young men sat on a long seat under the shadow of a tall tree .
7 Grasshoppers churred in the long grass .
8 Peonies and the smaller varieties of shrubs grew in a long border , stuffed with other treasures and backed by apple trees , grown espalier .
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