Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | When her arms and legs grow so long that she wears the rabbit 's house like a wooden dress , her performance is magic . |
| 2 | She also wore extremely high-heeled shoes that made her legs seem even longer . |
| 3 | So I mean think about it as long term planning , and certainly for those under er sixty the long term becomes extremely long term because er you know you 're looking at perhaps a third of your life er which is er still to be accounted for . |
| 4 | Well that 's what Lucy said , that it wouldnae lasted too long , I mean , it was over a year . |
| 5 | Since the enumeration of all subjects generates excessively long schedules , in practice the listing of subjects must be selective ( even if relatively long schedules are acceptable ) . |
| 6 | Relatively speaking , says Bakker , dinosaurs had quite long shanks , but not as long as modern-day runners . |
| 7 | Grandson Richard had quite long hair , which also helped when it was time to climb up on to the shoulder . |
| 8 | The baby 's skin was a soft creamy white and her dark lashes so long and silky they defied credibility . |
| 9 | Supercoiling also stimulates the formation of open complexes at several promoters in which these complexes have relatively long half-lives ( 24 , 25 ) . |
| 10 | The liver needs even longer to remove all the alcohol from that one night 's binge — about 13 hours . |
| 11 | Extension of the grounds for divorce took even longer to enact and was not achieved until 1937 . |
| 12 | However quick she was he always thought her work took too long and prevented them doing the more pleasurable things he had in mind . |
| 13 | Stirling is not surprised the error took so long to find . |
| 14 | P.P. 's responses had significantly longer latencies for the half-field contralateral to the lesion ( mean=1.84s , s.d. =1.67 ) compared to the good field ( mean=0.47s , s.d. =0.16 ; independent groups t=2.15 , P=0.05 ) , but there was no significant difference for L.A.H. ( affected field : mean=0.612s , s.d. =0.41 ; good field : mean=0.48 , s.d. =0.22 ) . |
| 15 | It is reasonable to suppose that these language users might ( even accidentally ) hit on new combinations of phrases to produce slightly longer sentences than had hitherto been the rule : sentences , moreover , whose newly-coined significance derived from both the context of their first use and the pre-established significance of their components . |
| 16 | These radioactive elements have very long half-lives , so the flux of radiation is effectively constant for the archaeological periods of interest in TL dating . |
| 17 | Antarctic islands that lie north of the northern limit of pack ice have markedly longer summers and milder winters than those that are invested by pack ice . |
| 18 | Lesser goldern plovers Pluvialis dominica make long trans-oceanic flights ; Alaskan breeding stocks cross 4000 km of the Pacific from wintering in Hawaii , while Asian stocks make even longer journeys from New Zealand and Oceania to breed in Siberia . |
| 19 | For some goods it may be appropriate to permit cancellation at no charge provided sufficiently long notice is given . |
| 20 | Two weeks seemed so long to begin with , but there was so much to do . |
| 21 | Similarly , significantly more traffic was seen and the junction took significantly longer to pass through . |
| 22 | I assume that most fishkeepers aim to have their fish live as long and grow as large as possible , so the first consideration is a large tank . |
| 23 | Why , in spite of all these factors , has an increase in population taken so long to achieve ? |
| 24 | Yet it too must fit into the confines of Studio D. To increase its apparent depth several backdrops have been added to the sets , including one to make the corridors seem much longer . |
| 25 | Producer Steve , 20 , who recorded Undercover 's version on a £1,000 keyboard adds : ‘ I just ca n't comprehend why some bands take so long to produce records . ’ |
| 26 | For example , why is it that personnel appointments take so long to be announced when there is often no adequate reason for the delay ? |
| 27 | There was therefore an understandable reluctance to undertake regularly long voyages to windward in rough weather . |
| 28 | Regarding economic management , one tenet of monetarism is that the effects of money supply changes involve both long and variable lags , so that it assumes too much expertise on behalf of politicians to imagine they can time expansive monetary policy to their advantage . |
| 29 | Males give loud long calls which seem to function in spacing the males , and the dispersion of the females may well be related to this . |
| 30 | We speak of a revolution ; and yet this intellectual transformation took so long to accomplish that there is no straightforward parallel with a political revolution . |