Example sentences of "[prep] a long [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , after a long hot summer , they had dried up until they were small circles of stagnant water surrounded by mud and silt . |
| 2 | Such accidentally created fires are usually most devastating after a long dry period when the organic content of the litter and soil is experiencing moisture deficiency and the presence of dry kindling provides a good fuel supply . |
| 3 | Yet there can be no room for complacency after shock home defeats by Watford and Barnsley defeats that were all the more disappointing because they came after a long unbeaten home run . |
| 4 | Legislation on " small " privatizations , whereby around 100,000 state-owned shops , restaurants and other small businesses would be put up for auction , had been passed on Oct. 25 , 1990 , after a long official debate on its pace and a spate of strikes by shopworkers fearing redundancy . |
| 5 | Approaching Valletta at dusk , she 'd been below decks , in the act of unclipping her bikini-top , about to change clothes after a long lazy day sunbathing with Penny , Devlin at the helm . |
| 6 | Mr Nyers was speaking shortly after a long procedural wrangle on the method of electing the new leadership . |
| 7 | Finally , after a long desperate battle with her conscience , she agreed , after he had had a small heart attack , to put him into a local hospital . |
| 8 | It can be hard work being a prima dogga , and after a long book-signing session there 's nothing Dido likes more than going fishing in the River Kennet . |
| 9 | We had made an early start that morning and after a long stiff climb up a bare hillside entered a forest of wild olives and massive juniper trees resembling cedars , many of them festooned with lichen . |
| 10 | The mention of the put-put brings back memories of trying to start the thing after a long cold night flight — it could be a swine but invariably started eventually . |
| 11 | After a long preliminary chat with the man from the LER , Chapman decided it was time to press home the point . |
| 12 | Claire asked her father one evening when they were back at Riverstown , after a long wet day and a huge hunting tea . |
| 13 | After a long genial conversation between Gerry Matthews and the road-sweeper , we were on our way . |
| 14 | One of the big disadvantages of crewing a cutter is that much of our revenue work has to be done after a long hard day 's passage between ports when often one only feels like flopping down on one 's bunk . |
| 15 | ‘ Tiredness took its toll after a long hard season . ’ |
| 16 | There had been times , especially after a long busy night at the club , when she had been severely tempted to just throw in the towel and thumb through the Yellow Pages to find the nearest painter and decorator to hand . |
| 17 | Debenham & Freebody 's of Wigmore Street did so in 1920 , but not for tardy payment of a long outstanding account but for an order which the customer denied had ever been given . |
| 18 | However , the Medical Officer wrote : ‘ A preferred standard of 50 mg/litre is the result of a long established consensus amongst scientists in the United Kingdom and internationally , ’ although ‘ transient excursions ’ above that level would have no importance ‘ in relation to the postulated role of nitrate in causation of cancer , since in this context the long-term average content is the significant figure . |
| 19 | In a satire of 1710 , Charles Davenant had his character of a Court Whig say to a country squire : " Let us eat out all your Lands and Tenements with Taxes of our devising ; let us have the sole Management of a long protracted War , and gather our wonted Fruits from it " . |
| 20 | Changes in these attitudes and practices will be the result of a long political process which will certainly take more than a century to work out , and even then will probably compress the time which it took Europe to work through comparable processes . |
| 21 | Walking around the base of an active cone erupting these bombs is a bit like walking around a battlefield , with spent rounded cannonball bombs and shattered fragments of cannonballs lying around , and many big battered boulders exhibiting the bruises of a long volcanic siege . |
| 22 | Anyone confirmed as suffering from a prescribed industrial disease should receive compensation for their condition without having to wait for the findings of a long drawn-out court arguments . |
| 23 | However the disease has also been recorded at the end of a long dry season due to the maturation of hypobiotic larvae . |
| 24 | Should relieve the tedium of a long hot summer 's afternoon , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 25 | Ten minutes later , at the end of a long downward-sloping track , the Waafery appeared out of the mist , the usual huddle of rounded Nissen huts , surrounded by the usual mud . |
| 26 | It consists of a long gentle curve of slightly shelving sand which often makes it possible to be only waist deep in warm , crystal clear water several hundred yards out . |
| 27 | At this I quickly joined them at the bottom of a long rickety iron ladder which led into the water ballast tanks and found them hauling out several cases which had been concealed there . |
| 28 | Arthur 's Seat is one of the remnants of a long extinct volcano . |
| 29 | You may be presented with a service agreement which covers many pages and which , you are told , offers the attractive guarantee of a long working period . |
| 30 | Apart front the ties of London , he liked and used Chequers a lot , and had established the almost unfailing rhythm of a long late summer-holiday at Aix-les-Bains in the French Alps . |