Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see they , they 've only got so long on this site with that van |
| 2 | Monetarist theory argues that the two lines on the graph should more or less coincide over long periods , showing that any increase in the money stock in excess of that needed to finance real output growth will be dissipated in price rises . |
| 3 | Do not make unnecessarily long calls as they are wasteful . |
| 4 | The tenant should ensure that the landlord is not given too long to make up its mind and the period of 60 days suggested by the precedent seems fair to both sides . |
| 5 | Many do not remain sufficiently long as temporary workers or with any one agency to be entitled to any rights even if they were to have dependent employee status . |
| 6 | He did not know how long Miss Hepburn had been ill . |
| 7 | I do not know how long I was asleep , but when I woke up I was cold and wet . |
| 8 | This is adequate to give a good reverberation effect , but the unit can not provide very long reverberation times of the type associated with spring-line reverberation units . |
| 9 | He did not believe that long discussion was of great value , rather that a considered insight or idea produced far more than a wealth of verbal expression . |
| 10 | As he kicks , slide the rear foot back and withdraw your leading foot by an equal amount so that your stance does not become too long . |
| 11 | You perhaps do not realize how long and desperately people have fought to keep Winston Spencer Churchill in the wilderness , and how furiously angry many of them are that he is back where he belongs . |
| 12 | I was just wondering how long you 're gon na take to read that paper . |
| 13 | It 's not waiting too long ? |
| 14 | He could not remember how long it was since-his wife had leaned on him , and he found it pleasant to be the one in charge of the situation . |
| 15 | They longed for deliverance from Roman oppression , and were encouraged to think that they would not have much longer to wait as the prophetic voice was heard once more in the land after centuries of silence . |
| 16 | Here , staff appreciate that both fear and grief in the patient and his relatives can be reduced through anticipating the fact that they do not have much longer together and that this time can be used constructively to work through some of their anxieties and other distressing emotions . |
| 17 | That impatient man did not have so long to wait as he had feared , for the very next evening a young townsman arrived at Hoddom from Annan , ten miles distant , with the news that Edward Balliol had indeed returned to his army . |
| 18 | Hopefully Class 42XX 2-8-OT No. 4253 will not take too long to return to full working order . |
| 19 | I 'm sure a lot of , it it 'll not take as long to sort it out , because we 've broken . |
| 20 | It need not take very long but it should be fairly strenuous — running up and down stairs a few times will do . |
| 21 | It may be that with adequate supervision and a period of reorientation it will not take very long to prepare yourself for a new role , but do take care to acknowledge your limitations , and to make known to your manager how these are likely to affect the care you give . |
| 22 | We did not recommend either long or short treatment for acute pyelonephritis , and consider that serial clinical and microbiological assessment is more important than didactic adherence to a predetermined treatment schedule . |
| 23 | Cattle were no longer taken on long drives , but were delivered by rail and cattle drives were then made illegal . |
| 24 | If the latter , how will they present the facts ; that the child will probably not live very long ; may have an ‘ unhappy ’ life ; will need constant supervision and care ; be perhaps better off unborn ? |
| 25 | Unfortunately , he did not live very long . |
| 26 | He 's not taken that long . |
| 27 | The TV playback showed that Southall had held the ball for 13 seconds , although it did not seem as long at the time . |
| 28 | He was aware of the immense arrogance of this , but he knew he had not mistaken that long , steady look . |
| 29 | Many corporations have top heavy , vertical organization structures and new ideas just take too long to move through the business process . |
| 30 | In current practice , individual competition decisions thus contain very long and detailed preambles setting out the reasons for the operative part which is , by comparison , quite short . |