Example sentences of "[art] [adv] long [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She struggled into Penry 's thick white sweatshirt , rolled the ludicrously long sleeves back , then began tidying the bed . |
| 2 | It was the need to provide so many public areas which produced the enormously long frontages of these stations , the buildings often as long as the platforms themselves . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the greatest injustice to genuine asylum seekers is to be found in the enormously long delays that occur in the processing of applications ? |
| 4 | A quarter of convicts are over 40 ( Table 2.1 ) , mainly because of the exceptionally long periods that ‘ lifers ’ spend in gaol : the minimum period to be served is fourteen years . |
| 5 | Add to that the dreadfully long hours that doctors and nurses have to work — sometimes 16-18 hour shifts — and it 's little wonder that mistakes are made . |
| 6 | Kuhn argued that the comparatively long periods of normal science were punctuated by crises when the existing paradigms broke down and a new paradigm , and eventually orthodoxy , would become established ; the Copernican revolution was a prime example of this . |
| 7 | Most importantly , the folded state of the subunit is stabilized by extensive van der Waals interactions and hydrogen bonds between the unusually long helices of R2 . |
| 8 | He writes : ‘ It seems to me that a great number of our explicit or implicit theories , our methods and preferences are heavily influenced by the very long traditions of analyzing mainly , or only , certain kinds of written language . |
| 9 | In 1911 Churchill , by then Home Secretary , introduced a Shops Act , the subject of a long campaign led by Sir Charles Dilke and female trade unionists , which established a half-day closing each week , thus reducing the very long hours worked by shop assistants but without increasing job opportunities . |
| 10 | Now I might have extra players so that there can be some moments of rest for the players in one of the very long symphonies ; but in Bruckner 's day it was often a matter of re-scoring a passage because you knew that the third horn was not a very good player and that is all you had . |
| 11 | And depending whether it 's a rectangular plot or whether it is n't or not or if it 's slightly at an angle then some of the corner houses have a fairly long gardens . |
| 12 | I work a very long hours . |