Example sentences of "[prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He watched their departure through a spreading mist , and when the last car had gone and the avenue was silent except for the long sigh of grass , he allowed himself to be taken back to his room . |
| 32 | Most went by road to distribution ports on the local rivers , including the Ouse and Rother , for the long voyage to London or other selling points . |
| 33 | Day Four : A leisurely departure at 10.00am for the long voyage to Trier where you should be safely moored by 3.30pm . |
| 34 | Pleasant to browse but unwise to buy as I could do without the extra weight of heavy tomes for the long haul after the town up past Hay Bluff to the Gospel Pass — a climb to more than 1,750 ft . |
| 35 | Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul , the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain . |
| 36 | A buyer for the long haul would not skate far past the optimal point and towards bankruptcy costs . |
| 37 | ‘ We do n't want to rush Mick because it 's a long season and we need him for the long haul . |
| 38 | As Julian & co limber up for the long haul , you get the feeling they never really hated rock as the survivors of post-punk seemed to . |
| 39 | So if they 're going to christen you Walter they 'd better put a couple of names in front of it , one for your spell in the pram plus another for the long haul up to becoming Walter . |
| 40 | He said that the USA was " a Pacific nation and we intend to remain in the Pacific for the long haul " . |
| 41 | Sticking with it for the long haul , typically 5–7 years . |
| 42 | But the benefits have come full circle , for the long master chronologies subsequently established for archaeological dating and calibration of radiocarbon results are now of just as much value to climatologists studying cycles in weather patterns associated with factors like sunspot activity and variations in the earth 's orbital parameters . |
| 43 | While people down south are still lying out in the sun and enjoying their holidays , up here we have to start planning well ahead for the long winter to come . |
| 44 | Maeve would be seeing to the barns , ensuring stock was slaughtered , the meat dried , salted and hung high in the kitchen to smoke , preserving it for the long winter months . |
| 45 | Leaving the summit sun-bathers , we scrambled down crags and loose stones to join the track for the long descent to Little Ingleborough . |
| 46 | The reason for the long undercarriage is n't to provide adequate prop clearance as you might expect . |
| 47 | The high point was the abolition of capital punishment which , although finally decided by Parliament after free votes in both Houses in 1965 and 1969 , would not have been possible but for the long campaign , outside Parliament as much as inside , mounted by the penal reformers of the day . |
| 48 | It was in part because of this love of the specially religious life , and in part because of the affection for the long history of the Church , that he led another pilgrimage ( 1959 ) of several thousand people to Holy Island on the coast of Northumberland and even The Times had a piece about the archbishop walking barefoot . |
| 49 | She mentally steeled herself for the long evening ahead , but , as it turned out , it was n't nearly as long as she had anticipated because towards the end of the evening she heard a sharp knocking on the door , and opened it to find André standing outside , a huge bunch of flowers in his arms . |
| 50 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
| 51 | As my hon. Friend rightly said , the construction of the 08 , the fourth boat , is currently under way and authorities have been given for the long lead items . |
| 52 | Pointing out that the Budget changes represented the most fundamental change in oil taxation for ten years , Mr Laidlaw added : ‘ Commitments to drill wells under current licences were made on the basis of the existing fiscal regime and the widespread acknowledgement that fiscal stability is essential for the long lead times involved in offshore developments . ’ |
| 53 | She stayed at the villa waiting for the long car . |
| 54 | On the basis of these figures , the authors suggest that any test score can be regarded as falling within seven points of the true score for the short form , and within five points of the true score for the long form of the test . |
| 55 | It is the stately motion of the gas giants that is alone responsible for the long interval ( about 180 years ) between full synods , and an ‘ outer half-synod ’ recurs at exactly the same interval . |
| 56 | So in December 1177 in exchange for 15,000 livres angevines ( roughly £4000 ) and forty pack animals — clearly intended to be used for the long pilgrimage to Jerusalem — Henry acquired the whole county of La Marche . |
| 57 | I still left Winston Street every morning for the long cycle ride through town and up the Banbury Road . |
| 58 | The message from brokers is apply for shares , but do not look to hold them for the long term . |
| 59 | For the long term benefits of the ‘ loyalty share bonus ’ together with a first year 's yield of around 20 per cent makes the investment an attractive income stock . |
| 60 | A government committed to the disciplines of the market had had a salutary lesson : the market did not care a damn for the long term , or strategic thinking into the middle of the next century , or , quite possibly , sustainable development . |