Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's all over for a long time . |
| 2 | If society 's resource could be used to make more output , even the poor might be better off in the long run . |
| 3 | Conversely , some econometricians have argued that it is more cost effective to use a ‘ drip ’ system , advertising more or less continuously over a long period at a very low weight . |
| 4 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time , ’ he told the ever-comforting Jones , ‘ and shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time and I shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 6 | But we should be further on in the long march from paternalism . |
| 7 | One does not get a sense of a strong need for support from parents to children to be reciprocated — certainly not in the short term , and possibly not in the long term either . |
| 8 | The original pirate radio ship Mi Amigo eventually drifted helplessly on to the Long Sand Head where she sank . |
| 9 | In the second-half the Dragons had a strong wind at their backs and almost made good use of it straight away as a long ball found McClean and his shot was pushed round by Westwood . |
| 10 | He laid it carefully out on the long table whilst waving Corbett over . |
| 11 | " I always thought that gardens , " said Clara , as they progressed slowly back along the long stretch of grass , and down the steps to the lower level , " I always thought that gardens were for growing flowers in . |
| 12 | In clinical case management there is a recognition that the worker is an important resource , and an awareness that the process of assessment and reassessment is a crucial function , to be discharged by someone who knows the client really well over a long period of time . |
| 13 | It seems to even out in the long run , although sometimes one has to give a wry smile when a customer dithers over one of ‘ hers ’ and one of ‘ mine ’ — then chooses ‘ hers ’ . |
| 14 | While people down south are still lying out in the sun and enjoying their holidays , up here we have to start planning well ahead for the long winter to come . |
| 15 | Once workers have installed Britain 's new cable , no one expects that the country will want to replace it — at least not for a long time . |
| 16 | Lord Berner 's Triumph of Neptune was another work he conducted quite frequently over a long period , and he made two recordings of the ballet suite . |
| 17 | He had reached there late after a long tramp from Ballyjamesduff in the next county . |
| 18 | But alas , it was destroyed when I was there recently by a long line of caravans along the beach . |
| 19 | Sometimes the virus stays there quietly for a long time and the person stays well . |
| 20 | Strangely , she was no longer in the long room with the little door , but outside in a wood . |
| 21 | And I think that was the situation for a lot of people , that erm if they did n't take the the flat that was offered to them , then they would be virtually erm either still on a long waiting list or homeless . |
| 22 | Ruthless and totalitarian , of necessity , yet also in the long run cherishing the human race , although it must needs manacle the minds of men ; absolutely , as never before . |
| 23 | Gazzer rolled off the drum and lay , flat out in the long grass . |
| 24 | They looked as if they had been dressed in a hurry and not very suitably for a long walk on the headland , even in a warm autumn . |
| 25 | Alice was understandably puzzled , saying , ‘ Well in our country you 'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we 've been doing . ’ |
| 26 | Harvey got a piece of canvas out of the front of the car and then pike took his overcoat off and they wrapped the coat into the canvas and strapped it up very tight on a long strap , the other end of which they fixed to the belt of Ralph pike 's overalls . |