Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | These regulations which will give effect at the European council directive of December the sixth will of course alter the long standing position in the U K whereby only British and Commonwealth citizens and citizens of the Republic of Ireland are entitled to vote in European parliamentary elections . |
2 | The prospect of another two years of study seemed a long time . |
3 | The prospect of another two years of study seemed a long time . |
4 | This kind of research has a long history in psychology and education but is relatively undeveloped in the rest of social science . |
5 | The perpetuation of the old sources of strife goes a long way towards explaining why party conflict continued after the Glorious Revolution , which will be the theme of the following chapter . |
6 | It might be a bottle of wine , but a bottle of wine goes a long way , and everybody , you stand up and you get your bottle of wine , and everybody goes , yes , feel good . |
7 | The golden pavilion and the peacock feathers flared and were gone in an instant , but the Hill of Heaven took a long while to cave in , and Hell burned with a black , acrid smoke billowing out of its throat . |
8 | It 's another piece of evidence suggesting a long term buildup towards a serious mercury crisis . |