Example sentences of "[adv] after a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 2 | He did so after a long consultation with the Prime Minister . |
| 3 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 4 | Nick Brown was cleared of drugs charges in Goa , but has only just been allowed home after a long campaign by his mother . |
| 5 | Here the sales staff glided about with languid grace more reminiscent of Paris than New York , the house models managed to look like elegant advertisements for Varna even after a long session of standing stock still while a toile was pinned and draped and adjusted around them , and even when a rail of sample clothes had to be wheeled across the hallowed expanse of green , carefully hidden inside grey and black sample bags to make sure they were safe from the photographic eye of a fashion spy , it was managed with what Hugo referred to as ‘ panache ’ . |
| 6 | He had reached there late after a long tramp from Ballyjamesduff in the next county . |
| 7 | Susanna Lewis 's very popular book A Machine Knitter 's Guide to Creating Fabrics is available again after a long absence from the bookshelves . |
| 8 | And subsequently after a long period of time , the opinions of our members generally was that we should change the , the procedure . |