Example sentences of "stand a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of higher clergy in Ulster and many of its lay intellectuals stand a long way off from protestant — loyalist politics and are in fact politically dissociated from them . |
| 2 | Because she had been reluctant to meet up with Celeste again , she had sat in a public stand a long way away from the private seating , the grid , the pits , but now she raced back towards them . |
| 3 | I saw long legs and a big pair of hands and he was standing a long way from the ball , giving himself plenty of room . |
| 4 | She wore a dark grey hat taken from the store on her last day as owner , and that was 17 years ago , and a plain grey scarf round her throat , and leather gloves that had stood a long test of time . |
| 5 | The train stood a long time in Gloucester Road station , for no apparent reason . |