Example sentences of "fight a long and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just over the mountain in Kentucky is Harlan County , where in 1973 the miners fought a long and bitter strike . |
| 2 | In 1832 at the Pierre 's Hole rendezvous , the Nez Perce fought a long and decisive battle alongside the Americans against some transient Blackfoot . |
| 3 | At Friends of the Earth , Jonathan Porritt similarly fought a long and largely successful battle to demonstrate that efficiency and negotiation with the opposition do n't have to mean sell-out . |
| 4 | Both men had fought a long and isolated battle against the move from London . |
| 5 | While the Silures and their allies had fought a long and successful guerrilla-type campaign , they did not possess the strength or ability to stop a large Roman force from advancing into their territory , nor had they command of the sea . |
| 6 | By 1957 almost half a million French troops , mostly young draftees or reservists but with a substantial leavening of Foreign Legionnaires and other regulars , were fighting a long and brutal war in Algeria against the forces of an independence movement known as the Front de Libération Nationale ( FLN ) . |