Example sentences of "as long [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modelling leads to the startling conclusion that melts may have been stored for as long as 300,000–500,000 years before eruption . |
| 2 | While Noah used to make his animals do dog-paddles behind the boat for as long as two hours to build up their stamina , modern-day swimming coaches apparently believe in relatively short intensive sessions . |
| 3 | Their supply base had been moved forward to Benghazi , which by that time had been captured by the British , and it was intended to stay out for as long as two months , mounting almost nightly raids . |
| 4 | Every afternoon she would wake from her afternoon sleep and cry pitifully , sometimes for as long as two hours . |
| 5 | Feeding takes place at night and toads continue to forage for as long as conditions are reasonably humid , sometimes for as long as two months . |
| 6 | It can take as long as two weeks after you give your blood sample before you get your result , which can be a difficult and stressful time . |
| 7 | But this mink sometimes took as long as two hours to catch one . |
| 8 | One faintly ludicrous example is a 1993 case where the Court of Appeal said that a sentence passed on a Mr Fairman would ‘ indicate to other people who might be minded to set fire to armchairs in the middle of a domestic row that if they do , they were likely to go to prison for as long as two years ’ . |
| 9 | Stung to the quick , Kammerer retorted that : ‘ Boulenger was lucky for apparently his eggs developed normally for as long as 5 days before they died . |
| 10 | But the work could last for as long as 11 weeks and local councillors have claimed that they should have been consulted about the scheme . |
| 11 | Of the two main regions , Bas Armagnac produces more elegant spirits , whereas Ténarèze , with its heavy , chalky clay soil , tends to make hefty brandies that take as long as thirty years to show their true potential . |
| 12 | They had taken as long as seventeen days to examine seventy-five schemes . |
| 13 | On this picture , the cloud of material from which our Solar System formed had a very unusual history , taking as long as 4.6 thousand million years to travel from one spiral arm to the next and then taking several hundred million years to pass through the compressed region of the Galaxy , the arm itself . |
| 14 | Helpers approaching have sometimes been bitten or attacked wildly in the delirium that follows and which may last as long as twelve tormented hours . |
| 15 | Greek conscientious objectors are not allowed to perform civilian alternative service but instead may perform unarmed military service lasting twice as long as normal military service . |
| 16 | In the sector that concerns us though , the figures from within the trade and the individual records of women employees tell a clear story : almost all the women compositors were single , and for as long as normal recruitment continued , up to 1910 , the majority of them were young . |
| 17 | Giant water bugs may go rigid when taken from the water and may hold this ‘ frozen ’ posture for as long as fifteen minutes . |
| 18 | The first time you use the rehearsal room , spend as long as necessary setting up your equipment until each member of the band can hear themselves and everyone else clearly . |
| 19 | You can use that as long as necessary . |
| 20 | If it does , the battery is ready for immediate use ; if not , leave it on charge for as long as necessary . |
| 21 | It would have come , if it was to come at all , only if a well co-ordinated , centrally directed campaign of strikes , carried out by an immensely disciplined and united workforce , and backed by enough money to support the strikers for as long as necessary , could have been made to prevail against the resolute and more readily co-ordinated opposition of masters who stood to lose everything if the strikers won . |
| 22 | This nurse may first see the patient in the Outpatient Clinic prior to admission and usually offers a counselling service for as long as necessary post-operatively . |
| 23 | We expect that to continue as long as necessary . |
| 24 | The commitment to ring fence for as long as necessary , as Baroness Hooper said in another place , will allow the Secretary of State arbitrarily to decide that , if he wishes to allocate the funds to some other project , he could deem the necessity to have ceased . |
| 25 | Accounts files will remain on the system for as long as necessary , so that 1990/91 accounts can be completed , and for proving the SUN Accounts system by parallel running . |
| 26 | The announcement of the 1991 budget , expected on Dec. 31 , 1990 , was delayed because of the cost of the Gulf crisis ( estimated at $21,000 million by the end of 1990 ) and uncertainty over world oil markets ; the 1990 budget was to be extended for as long as necessary . |
| 27 | In September 1946 an assurance was finally given that American troops would stay in Germany for as long as necessary . |
| 28 | Additionally , a more flexible attitude by social services to enable the young person without fully satisfactory living arrangements to go to , to stay on as long as necessary at the home , would be preferable to sticking rigidly to a somewhat arbitrary age cut-off time . |
| 29 | Lyneham will remain on standby for as long as necessary . |
| 30 | To hold weekly Union meetings for as long as necessary to monitor the progress of the campaign . |