Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [art] [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fads breed products with a short life-cycle , such as pop records and other leisure items ; fashions tend to develop or reappear over the course of years , and the products which follow them tend to have a relatively long life-cycle . |
| 2 | One problem is that appeals to the European Court from decisions of DGIV tend to take a very long time , and there is also some doubt as to whether the Court is an appropriately constituted body to act as a review tribunal in the sense described above . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've travelled a tremendously long road and this is a great day for us , ’ he said . |
| 4 | But it is t it is erm very good they 've got a very long waiting list I was helping |
| 5 | So far , we 've actually managed to characterise about 1600 of that 50,000 and so we 've got a very long way to go . |
| 6 | And I 'm afraid that as all I 've seen is one miscalculated mishap after another you 've got an awful long way to go before I 'm convinced of anything . |
| 7 | So they 've kept a very long time . |