Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | What distinguishes the companies still with us after a long period of recession is that they are lucky — they do not seem to have been hit by the unexpected . |
| 2 | Her voice trailed away completely as he reached lazily towards her with a long arm . |
| 3 | We 've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership . |
| 4 | We have been looking forward to it for a long time , ’ said one oilman . |
| 5 | His collections , put together painstakingly by himself over a long lifetime , and including large quantities of newscuttings , ephemera , overlapping narrative autobiography and correspondence , came to the British Museum ( as it then was ) through his family . |