Example sentences of "not [adv] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buying a soon-to-be-obsolete car can be a saving in the short term , but not necessarily in the long term . |
| 2 | More noteworthy is the declamatory freedom with which rhythms are interpreted — not only in the long solos for the second piano but also when these are accompanied by the most complicated rhythmic canons in the other instrument . |
| 3 | But er not not for a long time . |
| 4 | Not once in the long years had he attempted to get in touch , to correspond with a daughter he had been all too ready to abandon . |
| 5 | At this point the husband , who had not moved once during his wife 's burial — not even during the long wait for the priest — suddenly fainted to the ground and had to have cold water thrown over him . |
| 6 | Perhaps not even in the long summer that stretched ahead of them . |