Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | On its right-hand side a long scar ran from just behind the ear to the corner of his mouth . |
| 2 | Such judgements , however , are best made as close to the action as possible rather than on a theoretical basis a long way away . |
| 3 | The princess told them : ‘ I have come to terms with this relationship a long time ago . |
| 4 | Nesting on a high ledge a long way above our tent were two lammergeirs — yellow-bellied vultures . |
| 5 | He cited as his favourite book a long novel about Lancashire and the cotton industry , which he referred to occasionally , but the great wealth of British literature was both unknown to him and something in which he clearly had no interest . |
| 6 | ‘ I have lived in this world a long time , child . |
| 7 | We 've been out on this balcony a long time , and no one has come to interrupt us . |
| 8 | Ruth gave Rachaela one of her Ruth-type presents , this time a long candle shaded through vermilion to orange , and this they burnt as their one festive token . |
| 9 | But I found out his real secret a long time ago . |
| 10 | All your stock , crop and equipment would become part of a vast operation , you and your staff would be workers operating to a master plan created in a central office a long way off . |
| 11 | In France the Third Republic inherited from the old monarchy and the Second Empire a long tradition of such support for Catholic missions in the Near East and China and showed itself as willing as its predecessors to shoulder what it felt to be its obligations in this respect . |
| 12 | ‘ Charlie was one of the sort that make a little go a long way . |
| 13 | Considering that Coward and Lawrence only ever appeared together twice in adult life , in Private Lives and Tonight at 8.30 , Mr Morley manages to make a little go a long way . |
| 14 | ‘ I knew someone of that name a long time ago . |
| 15 | We gave each other a long hug . |
| 16 | Just as well they have something else in common : they have known each other a long time , and are all good friends . |
| 17 | We 'd known each other a long time . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've known each other a long time . |
| 19 | We 've known each other a long time . |
| 20 | We 're growing familiar , like we 've known each other a long time . |
| 21 | You and I have known each other a long time . |
| 22 | That time , last year , it rose in a great cloud a long way away , and stayed in the sky for two weeks . |
| 23 | The pack have also developed their loose play a long way and although I am not a great fan of the ‘ hand ruck ’ , in the games so far the pack has mixed its rucking and mauling well . |
| 24 | Which is not to say he 's a hippy soul surfer , a revivalist sporting a long Malibu board and casually riding a wave 's length as if strolling in the park . |
| 25 | This seems to indicate that the rock was of sacred significance a long time before Augustine visited . |
| 26 | Lewis and Harris share with the developing world a long and troubled history of agrarian problems and unrest . |
| 27 | Legless Mike , trundling on tree-stump hip-pads , his one arm a long puckered cone . |
| 28 | That 's it ; except Nina stopped looking for any knight a long time ago . ’ |
| 29 | No , but if she is , she 's , she 's been going that way a long time . |
| 30 | Both areas will be far below optimum today but — and this is the important point — in the one case the land can be brought back to full production easily , whereas in the other case a long and costly process of fertility building will be necessary . |