Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | The baby 's skin was a soft creamy white and her dark lashes so long and silky they defied credibility . |
| 4 | The liver needs even longer to remove all the alcohol from that one night 's binge — about 13 hours . |
| 5 | To the shrew , 24 hours seems so long that it divides it up into many smaller intervals of activity and rest , effectively experiencing many days within one rotation of the Earth . |
| 6 | bill rather stout lores dark and boldly patterned underparts ; Tawny Pipit adult has equally long tail but is much less streaked . |
| 7 | Micky Yornutta is not so sure , so he asked Brian what exactly he expects from his side and Brian , as ever , decided not to sit on the fence , but the main concern being for his side to pass the ball as opposed to kicking it , but first Brian says that long ball to John Durnin is all wrong . |
| 8 | The depressing view of the unsightly pylons marching across the valley floor , heavy traffic thundering along the Woodhead Pass road , five reservoirs and a disused railway line , is soon left behind as you negotiate the tussocky grass slops below Long Gutter Edge towards the entrance to Wildboar Clough . |
| 9 | So far Mr Jackson has not endorsed Mr Brown , but he has left the impression he would accept an invitation to be on the ticket if the former governor of California beats exceedingly long odds to become the Democrats ' White House nominee . |
| 10 | And er , I should n't really have started this over because Lawrence takes so long to go through it , erm , find Johnson waiting , think it right . |
| 11 | He contends that the style of operation of the CNAA is inimical to this task and that course validation takes too long and compromises in course design which arise from the resolution of the often marked differences within validating boards affect adversely the quality of the work of polytechnics . |
| 12 | Amy does extra long , extra long ! |
| 13 | A 70-page list of sea defences in the report finds that long stretches of England 's coastline defences are in ‘ poor ’ , condition because of old age . |
| 14 | If all subjects , simple or compound , are listed in schedules , then the list becomes very long . |
| 15 | For instance , Corbett , in support of the observation that Swift uses abnormally long sentences in A Modest Proposal , cites a much lower sentence length from a sample from A Tale of a Tub . |
| 16 | Despite being utterly inevitable , our hero 's hesitant romance with the camp nurse takes painfully long to blossom . |
| 17 | Concrete absorbs next to no water , and soft mortar takes too long to stiffen before it can be smoothed off and marked with a light cross-hatch key . |