Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] in the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | This also enables any eventual profit to be kept in the long term , avoiding the problem that if it is retained , any eventual surplus would have to go back to the borrower . |
| 2 | Its site , significantly , is visualized as private ; there are no buildings to be seen in the long perspective to the viewer 's right . |
| 3 | They 're not always to be trusted in the long term , you know . ’ |
| 4 | It must be admitted that the famous mould may well have strayed upstairs from the cultures on the floor below , and is perhaps to be included in the long list of profitable discoveries which arose from a lapse in maintaining the highest standards of laboratory practice . |
| 5 | Cooperation seems to be less of an immediate necessity with market-determined exchange rates , but coordination of national policies still seems desirable if conflict and economic stagnation are to be avoided in the long run . |