Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real wonder is not that some who profess to believe fall away after continuing so long but that some last as long as they do with as little as they have . |
| 2 | She got up , suddenly chilled after sitting so long . |
| 3 | The joyless cynicism , vicious cruelty , and ugly surroundings of his new life were his punishment for living so long in foolish illusion . |
| 4 | I did n't really rate his chances of living that long . |
| 5 | He pointed out the importance of having both long and short term memory — ‘ you do n't want to clutter up your brain with information that is irrelevant long term ’ , he said , giving as an example the way you would look at traffic approaching as you crossed a street — you need to recall the situation for only a few seconds . |
| 6 | All editors live between the Scylla of having insufficient papers in the system to allow efficient publication and the Charybdis of taking too long to publish . |
| 7 | MITI argues that their guidance has at least prevented maturity rates from getting much longer than the average of four months . |
| 8 | Many apologies for taking so long to write . |
| 9 | I must apologise for taking so long to respond to your offer of a Village Sports Information Pack . |
| 10 | Lesk explains that ‘ the idea is to select the correct sense of a word by counting overlapping words between the sense definitions and the definitions of the other words in nearby context … it depends for its success on having fairly long and informative definitions . |
| 11 | They also show high stock levels and an increasing reliance on borrowing both long term and short term . |
| 12 | It 's a finite , I 'm not gon na spend too long on this . |
| 13 | Mr Chairman I 'm , I 'm a little bit concerned about er number two er there 's something that is , we promised to reply straightforward written enquiry with without sort of commenting on whether it 's two weeks , two days , or whatever , I am a little concerned that some of the replies people show me that have had from Highways Department , erm , they really whoever writes them do n't go into any detail , I 've had , I 've seen letters recently where , where somebody said it will be dealt with in about four weeks ' time , well that 's okay , maybe they 've good and valid reasons why about four weeks is about right for their particular problem , but they do n't know why it 's gon na take four weeks , they say oh god they should be able to do that in a couple of days there 's no problem it 's an easy little job , I , I feel that the , our officers when they reply they should give some amount of detail and if they give a time span in which they 're gon na put something right , they should say why it 's gon na take that long . |
| 14 | Hence , all investors will hold a proportion of their investment in the risky portfolio , M , and adjust their risk return combination by going either long or short in the risk-free asset ( in equilibrium there will be no net borrowing or lending for the market as a whole ) . |
| 15 | Proteins are built by joining together long chains of individual units — amino acids — which are either themselves made in the body or are present in the diet . |