Example sentences of "[adv] in the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | fixations might do better in the long run by holding out until you 've got enough cash to buy the real thing . |
| 2 | The resale potential of other Anatolian items is less clear , but it seems probable that the finer quality Dobags and the more tribal items , whether village or nomadic , will fare better in the long term than " furnishing " or " decorative " rugs . |
| 3 | They argue , on pragmatic grounds , that judges must sometimes act as if people had legal rights , because acting that way will serve society better in the long run . |
| 4 | Is the community so anxious that its judges not behave as pragmatists that this " noble lie " will help him serve its true interests better in the long run ? |
| 5 | Buying a soon-to-be-obsolete car can be a saving in the short term , but not necessarily in the long term . |
| 6 | His record as an MP , especially in the Long Parliament ( 1640–8 ) suggests someone extremely active , and useful to the House , but not of major political importance . |
| 7 | Each was temporarily leader of his respective peer-group and power-base , but each had less than unanimous backing , especially in the long term . |
| 8 | In many cases these activities have promoted gender-neutral policies and perhaps in the long term will have a major impact on some aspects of gender bias in schools . |
| 9 | Her looks and her vibrant personality had always won the day for her — but perhaps in the long run that had n't been a good thing , because now those weapons had failed her she was floundering , rudderless . |
| 10 | So in the long run I think his objectivity may have helped a little bit . |
| 11 | Well , you may win , but your counterparts will think they 've lost and so in the long run will you . |
| 12 | So in the long term , the entourages of the great proved effective as social melting-pots . |
| 13 | So in the long run , first of all we saved ourselves an initial risk outlay of a quarter of a million pounds on legal fees , the second thing is that we now have that common land back under control , and within ten years we will recoup all of that money . |
| 14 | It is only in the long run that a match gradually emerges between what is seen to happen and what is said to happen . |
| 15 | More noteworthy is the declamatory freedom with which rhythms are interpreted — not only in the long solos for the second piano but also when these are accompanied by the most complicated rhythmic canons in the other instrument . |
| 16 | The good effects of war can be detected only in the long term , and there were bad effects too , while the consequences of coalition for the party were immediate and almost wholly negative . |
| 17 | The idle flap of the hand again , and round the next corner was another tank , then a third , hull down in the long grass like old dogs sunning themselves on a lazy day . |
| 18 | I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness . |
| 19 | Once inside in the long , dimly-lit corridor she withdrew a photostat copy of the invoice from her pocket and handed it to him . |
| 20 | Strangely , she was no longer in the long room with the little door , but outside in a wood . |
| 21 | I hid myself away in the long grass at the edge of the wood near Sykes Farm . |
| 22 | Nevertheless in the long term , if the policy is pursued rigorously enough , many economists argue that it is the most effective way of keeping inflation under control . |
| 23 | That 's one corporate plan that ca n't win , not in the long term . |
| 24 | Where government introduces measures that exclude people from resources long since used by them , the people come to view the project as a zero-sum game ( Thomson in Glantz , ed. 1977 ) , where their loss is exactly others ' gain , and conservation will not in the long run lead to an increase in their incomes . |
| 25 | One does not get a sense of a strong need for support from parents to children to be reciprocated — certainly not in the short term , and possibly not in the long term either . |
| 26 | Not in the long run . |
| 27 | He will not in the long run profit from arrangements that turn the surviving research institutes into training grounds for emigrant specialists . |
| 28 | This is not in the long term interests of global capitalism , and TNCs through their governments have been known to put pressure on dictators for the purpose of creating or restoring pluralist political systems . |
| 29 | Erm any strategy for taking jobs away from other parts of the country towards Harrogate will not solve the nation 's problems and it will not in the long term solve North Yorkshire 's problems . |
| 30 | It 's not in the long book . |