Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involved a long hike over Esk Hause to Gable , and to avoid the intense mid-day heat we agreed to leave the valley at dawn . |
| 2 | This began a long association between the royal family and Wilson , who undertook several commissions . |
| 3 | Delegates could contribute valuable insight and comment based on their own experiences and expertise , and this went a long way towards creating LASMO 's HSE blueprint for 1993 and beyond . |
| 4 | This ended a long history of credit controls in Britain since the war . |
| 5 | It 's something you use to get you from A to B , I guess , and right now that seemed a long way to me . |
| 6 | The proportion saying they decided ‘ during the last few days ’ is nearly one in seven of all who voted on Thursday , and double the 1987 figure : 198319871992 Decided a long time ago788173 Two or three weeks ago141213 During the last few days 8 714 |
| 7 | These enclosed a long yard , at the end of which was Sainsbury 's Warehouse . |
| 8 | His win in last year 's National broke a long lean spell but he was quite casual about it all in the post race interviews . |
| 9 | Proposals such as these went a long way to alleviate Chinese concerns and brought closer the possibility of a summit meeting between the two leaderships for which Soviet spokesmen had for some time been calling . |
| 10 | It all seemed a long way from his flat in Whalley Range . |
| 11 | It all went a long way towards explaining why umpires the world over have been reluctant for so many years to restrain cricket 's bouncer-happy fast bowlers . |
| 12 | They all had a long tradition of agrarian troubles , and all suffered from overpopulation and land scarcity . |
| 13 | In both cases the men concerned had a long history of previous convictions , with the killer already in jail following the deaths of two other boys . |
| 14 | ( That took a long time too . |
| 15 | The principle of emancipation with land survived , but the statutes of 19 February 1861 fell a long way short of the dreams entertained by radicals . |
| 16 | The wounded took a long time to arrive . |
| 17 | That meant a long walk and a hitch back to Capel Curig if there was any chance of making the pub before closing time . |
| 18 | In 1970 received a long service award and a gold watch from . |
| 19 | This production in 1900 started a long association with Blackpool . |
| 20 | Nigel 's father , former Lord Chancellor Lord Havers , was Attorney General when former spy Peter Wright was trying to publish his book Spycatcher and Havers senior fought a long battle on behalf of the British Government to ban the book . |
| 21 | Only the last survived a long complicated life as a passion , and led to her single-handed revival of the eighteenth-century art of shell pictures , an obsessive pursuit of Irish aristocratic ladies in the time of Sheridan and Goldsmith . |