Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spread the rest on to the biscuits , then pile the biscuits on top of each other to make a long roll . |
| 2 | The sweet taste of this victory lingered a long time on the lips of Dublin dykes . |
| 3 | ‘ The writer of this article lives a long way from Washington and would not know the answers to these questions . ’ |
| 4 | Although the academic study of Roman law took a long time to have practical effect , by the 1170s and 1180s it was occasionally cited authoritatively in some at least of the courts of the south . |
| 5 | Researchers investigating the causes of psychological depression spent a long time carefully documenting how severe , traumatizing events that happen to people , such as bereavement or job loss , can induce it . |
| 6 | Most importantly the use of syntactic information has a long history in computational linguistics . |