Example sentences of "[adv] a [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes I I remember we went down a very long cul-de-sac at one stage on self containment did n't we . |
| 2 | Erm Peter , North Yorkshire , I think it 's appropriately addressed there and I think there are so many elements of it that er I think you w you would end up with perhaps a very long explanatory section . |
| 3 | It was n't obviously a particularly long discussion … you are dealing with a company of a modest size … . |
| 4 | From there , the food passes to the gut — Koi do not have a stomach as such , only a very long intestine . |
| 5 | For , despite acquiring a mass of archival material stretching over a very long period of time , the Chinese never developed anything corresponding to the modern Western concept of history . |
| 6 | Fact : The authors have chosen here to quote undiscounted and out-of-date figures although they make much play of discount rates elsewhere in their article and must be aware that the decommissioning costs concerned arise over a very long period of time stretching to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond . |
| 7 | Conduction of heat occurs only very slowly through rock , and if this is the only mechanism operating uplift will occur over a very long period — something of the order of 100 Ma . |
| 8 | Prognosis — not a punishingly long course , but you 'll need to be a good putter to break par ! . |
| 9 | From a herb border to a complete herb garden is not a very long step , and once the initial interest has been started with the planting of single plants here and there in the garden , it is not long before friends are giving one new species , other varieties are discovered at garden centres , and catalogues are found to list even more . |
| 10 | This is not a very long list of " media offences " . |
| 11 | It 's not a very long journey it 's , it 's . |
| 12 | This is , however , usually a very long process ; and while it can be accelerated by shifting and deflation , it is in fact better to depopulate A below the diagonal , as far as possible , as an initial step . |
| 13 | Under the present director , Geoffrey Morgan , a soft-spoken Welshman whose main outside interest is silkworms , the list of names has moved away from the Reform Club and further out into Middle England , although it is still a very long way short of representing a cross-section of the population . |
| 14 | It was a lot bigger now and yet , and yet … still a very long way off . |
| 15 | But he was still a very long way from knowing enough to judge the value of what each of them had chosen , or would choose to tell him , and what they would , for differing reasons , see fit to suppress . |
| 16 | As a company and as individuals , we are still a very long way from the goals set at the outset of TOP in February 1992 and much remains to be done . |
| 17 | And here there is still a very long way to go . |
| 18 | Experts now solve the problem by placing them in a separate order which , they believe , branched off a very long time ago and did not lead to more advanced forms . |
| 19 | ‘ She 's been dead a very long time , has n't she ? ’ |
| 20 | There were a few of the I-am-not-really-dead-but-just-popped-out-for-a-packet-of-fags sort of lines , which all went on a little long for Henry 's taste , and quite a number of death-as-a-viable-alternative-to-life stuff , much of it from the fathers of the early church . |
| 21 | We 're getting not just somewhere a very long way away , |
| 22 | It 's taken us both a very long time but I feel stronger and emotionally much more stable now . |
| 23 | Harry Curwen , his friend and cycling companion , had a story that Father wanted to ride up a very long hill on one of their excursions but fell off near the top . |
| 24 | There are many more , but you now have enough to make up a very long list of counting numbers using prime numbers and multiplication . |
| 25 | To invest such works a besieging army would have to be at least 700,000 strong , and London would be able to hold out a very long time , as the example of Paris showed ; the Prussian siege there lasted five months , and had things gone a little differently Paris might have been relieved . |
| 26 | But it is now a very long time since I was there . ’ |
| 27 | The drink theme too , broadly understood , goes back a very long way . |
| 28 | What river engineers have begun to do is to rediscover their roots , and these , as we shall see , go back a very long way . |
| 29 | Rudston 's history goes back a very long way to Neolithic times and it is believed to be the oldest inhabited village in England . |
| 30 | You have to go back a very long way indeed to a more decorous age when politicians did n't use the memoir as a weapon for reopening old wounds . |