Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 He motioned his family and Paul to halt and pointed silently across the river to a herd of muntjac grazing in the long grass .
2 Whereas they all currently specialise either in advanced academic credit-bearing courses of one or two years , or in short courses for groups who often have little or no contact with each other , Northern College 's founders hoped to combine long courses with ten-week courses so that students would benefit from having the continuity of learning associated with the long courses alongside the fresher experiences and perceptions of students on short courses .
3 ‘ The bad effects of island driving on the long sentences were not caused by an increase in the number of false alarm seeds .
4 The win by Peter Crispe and navigator Tony Poole was an exceptionally popular one , the pair having been stalwarts of air racing for a long time .
5 I also learnt the difference between a Helio Courier and a Pilatus Porter , two types of STOL aircraft often used in Ecuador ; the former small and cheap to charter , the latter costing £150 an hour but able to carry a collecting team of three people , with our usual equipment and the 500 litres of petrol needed for a long river trip .
6 As my hon. Friend the Member for Copeland ( Dr. Cunninghan ) said , the Secretary of State spoke for a long time — until about 6 o'clock .
7 Well by now it 's perfectly clear that the suggestion that these characteristics rest in the blood and in race is wrong , but there remains this enormous field of characteristic garnered from a long historical process .
8 Perhaps it is because a predator is able to find and eat relatively large numbers of aposematic prey in a short space of time , and that the high initial rate of feeding produces a more powerful reinforcement than a greater number of prey eaten over a longer period .
9 Now he faced the biggest obstacle he would ever have to clear , for the only chance of cure lay in a long and horrifically painful course of chemotherapy .
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