Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | A team of 123 competitors and 22 officials made the long trip after much media criticism of the small size of the original allocation of places , particularly for athletics . |
| 2 | Plantations outyield by almost 10 times managed ‘ natural ’ forest and these pines have a long fibre suitable for pulp , but hardwoods , notably Eucalyptus spp. yield higher total amounts of dry matter , and the most productive may yield up to twice that of the best pines . |
| 3 | Humankind and human structures seemed a long way away . |
| 4 | The street was empty and silent and small sounds carried a long way . |
| 5 | To build up an impression of how metal use developed , many and various artefacts covering a long time span need to be examined . |
| 6 | At the Rutland Forest Eyre in 1269 the verderers , regarders and other jurors presented a long list of indictments of this kind . |
| 7 | For an instant , too , a detached sense of pity welled up inside him at the body 's seeming frailty in the face of its task ; could the slight , sloping shoulders carry the heavy burdens of leadership , the thin arms and bony wrists hold a long steady course ? |