Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it remains a curious anomaly that although the marathon has been the classic test of long distance endurance throughout nearly a century of Olympic history , the fastest timings have never enjoyed the status of world records . |
| 2 | In 1989 the local authority placed four siblings with the foster mother for long term fostering . |
| 3 | So far , little has been published on the time trends for anal cancer , probably because of the limited access to long term data and those truly representative of populations . |
| 4 | The ‘ brain of the Army ’ , perhaps the central force in long term planning , procurement and the organisation of research and development . |
| 5 | It was the chief centre of long distance pilgrimage in western Europe — and even Compostela and St James could never quite compete with Peter and Paul in Rome . |
| 6 | Further studies are needed to address the dose equivalence of salmeterol and the optimum dose for long term treatment . |
| 7 | [ But ] the general picture of community care presented by this evidence on the fate of short stay patients following the closure of long stay hospitals is much more disquieting than the evidence on the planned discharge of long stay patients . |
| 8 | Technical advances and the increasing demand for long distance communication meant but one thing ; lower prices . |
| 9 | Their clothing and equipment was more functional , but they carried the same pattern of long sword . |
| 10 | Our agency role and the directors ' responsibility should be clearly set out and the procedures relevant for the wider distribution of long form reports followed ( see CFM Chapter 5 , section 8.8 ) . |
| 11 | The balance will be invested in property and shares of carefully selected major companies , both home and abroad , which our Investment Managers believe hold the best potential for long term capital growth . |
| 12 | Although certain other lines had their own Royal vehicles and carried our own and foreign Royalty more frequently than the LNWR , it was in the main the Wolverton LNWR and later LMSR train that carried the Royal family on long railway journeys . |
| 13 | The German Bund contract was strong from the outset , probably due to the previously unsatisfied demand for derivatives based on German bonds , but this has been strengthened considerably by the reunification of Germany and the resulting uncertainty about long term yields on German paper . |