Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doreen gazed up into Silas 's face , her expression soulful , before she turned slowly to favour Lucy with a long and penetrating stare . |
| 2 | He always found room for a long line of sweet peas ; it gave him immense pleasure to pick an armful of these , take them home , present them to Mum and fill the house with their glorious scent . |
| 3 | When I looked up I saw it was coming from two smartly dressed men on the long bench-seat opposite . |
| 4 | This definition encompasses the trade-off between static and dynamic efficiency : current welfare losses may be acceptable , if the market structure or conduct which gives rise to the losses will also generate efficiencies in the long run , so long as the prospective benefits are not too delayed in realization and the social discount rate is not too high . |
| 5 | A wall that has been damp will often contain moisture for a long time after the cause has been remedied , so it is better to allow the walls to dry out naturally , although anti-damp paint could be used to allow the room to be decorated before the wall has dried out . |
| 6 | Certain quality developments will have little or no cost saving effect but will improve patient safety — for example , the preferential use , wherever possible , of well tried drugs with a long safety record . |
| 7 | Taken in connection with the fact that Liverpool is the greatest seaport in the world , that one alone should remain a disorganised prey to designing knaves is one of the strange and unaccountable anomalies which frequently escape notice for a long time but only to be ultimately felt with greater force and overcome with greater resolution " . |
| 8 | Then linking trills as a long confident run |
| 9 | But even so , then ask Fred on the long term would be ideal . |
| 10 | The historical and geographical evidence then both suggest that the low realizations of /Ε/; ( conservative English in background ) are giving way in a linguistically ordered way to the long mid realizations characteristic of present-day Scots . |
| 11 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |