Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] long [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are transparent , shaped like the long slender leaves of a willow and without fins except for an undulating fringe around their margin . |
| 2 | The stratigraphic record indicates , however , that eustatic changes have also occurred during the long equable periods when the available evidence suggests that polar ice was absent . |
| 3 | When the summer ripened into the long hot days of harvest , Davis sought an audience with Stephen . |
| 4 | Country weavers and knitters were to become better remembered for the long sad days of their early nineteenth-century decline , but they had happier days when they consumed the products made by their fellow artisans in Burslem , Sheffield and Birmingham . |
| 5 | The man screamed as the long tapering fingers and joints of a gauntlet-hand came around the edge , like the claws of a huge crab . |