Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [prep] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our days were filled with long interviews with the architect , the plumber , the electrician and the foreman builder . |
| 2 | In a trial held in October 1990 , 38 members of the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam ( NUFLVN ) resistance movement were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment after being found guilty of attempting to overthrow the government . |
| 3 | The managers of the company were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment in October . |
| 4 | It was a more profound unpredictability , in spite of the fact that probably a good proportion of workers were employed for long periods of their lives by a single employer . |
| 5 | It has been alleged by the director of a management investigation company that telephones in Transport House , then the headquarters of the Labour Party and still the headquarters of the TGWU , were tapped for long periods during 1972 , a time of union opposition to the Industrial Relations Act 1971 . |
| 6 | The other 20 men and 10 women started antihypertensive medication at mean ages of 35.5 and 40.8 years respectively ; many patients were observed for long periods before starting medication , especially in the early 1970s . |
| 7 | These contraction sequences were associated with long periods of increased baseline pressure in the distal oesophagus . |
| 8 | All were controlled for long periods with endoscopic treatment altough it is possible that obstruction contributed to death in one patient . |