Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adj] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we decided to get lots of copies for all our friends that we have n't seen for a long long time so I asked if they could do them for me but I thought they would be back by now , well they should of been back ages ago actually ! |
| 2 | It was presented in a further long meeting , going on well into the early hours of the morning , when George Elvin , having conferred with several of his senior colleagues on my telephone , returned to say that they would accept the proposal . |
| 3 | Although the Victoria was not an especially large establishment , it backed onto an old warehouse that had at one time been split down the middle and then divided up into a series of small rooms that all opened onto a single long corridor . |
| 4 | On this view , the 1980s are to be followed by a new long boom initiated by a series of innovations . |
| 5 | The decision was taken after a two-year long study by the Department of Health . |
| 6 | The head was then pickled in a ten-foot long tin box , and the rotting body returned to the ocean . |