Example sentences of "[adv] long [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All you need to do is to be sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time and and his mates will turn around and throw up their hands and shak and and turn somersaults . |
| 2 | Summer , with its endlessly long days and grouse shooting … |
| 3 | It also has an extremely long shelf-life and loses none of its potency even when turning from its original pale straw colour to the colour of strong tea after a year or more . |
| 4 | Just long hours and low pay . |
| 5 | Just long hours and low pay . |
| 6 | If using the stove on the ground , cut away long grass and stand the burner on a pad of aluminium kitchen foil . |
| 7 | It comes with an extra long lead and a fitted plug and costs £29.95 from Boots , Argos , leading department stores and electrical retailers . |
| 8 | Clairol 's Big Shot is the ultimate drying machine — it 's lightweight , has 1500 watts of power , a concentrator nozzle and diffuser attachment for versatile styling plus extra long lead and fitted plug . |
| 9 | The release included statements that ‘ the discovery will be relatively easy to make into a usable technology for generating heat and power ’ ; and that ‘ this generation of heat continues over long periods and is so large that it can only be attributed to a nuclear process ’ . |
| 10 | This makes the diet difficult to sustain over long periods and management requires the services of a specialist metabolic team . |
| 11 | It seemed to take an unreasonably long time and much bad temper , evasion and deliberate obfuscation , together with consultation of a diary that appeared to be alternately blank and covered with scribbled hieroglyphics . |
| 12 | Erm again I i would n't have thought that you know odd days here and there would have any effect but if if it 's going to more long term and the you know the amount increases then it could have an effect on your premature retirement compensation . |
| 13 | The blooms are carried on long stalks and are over an inch across . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've travelled a tremendously long road and this is a great day for us , ’ he said . |
| 15 | In general , though , they vary from long-oval in shape to almost globular , are borne on rather long peduncles and , by now , will have almost entirely lost the wizened remains of the flower 's calyx . |
| 16 | It has exceptionally long barbels and , when kept in confined spaces where it can not move these appendages freely , it will often take fright and dash around the aquarium , causing considerable damage not only to the tank decor , but to itself in extreme cases the fish has been known to leap from the tank . |
| 17 | It has exceptionally long barbels and , when kept in confined spaces where it can not move these appendages freely , it will often take fright and dash around the aquarium , causing considerable damage not only to the tank decor , but to itself . |
| 18 | However , the fact that it is both long range and always attractive means that its effects all add up . |
| 19 | They also show high stock levels and an increasing reliance on borrowing both long term and short term . |
| 20 | Mostly rather small waders , the smallest called stints ( peeps in N America ) , with only moderately long bill and legs and shortish wings and neck . |
| 21 | The Gnomes had gone to considerable trouble ; Culdub and Bith had sat up long hours and consulted books and chronicles and there had been much burning of late candles and worried scurryings to and fro between the Gnomes ' houses in the little mountain village . |
| 22 | Smallish plover-like birds , with fairly long legs and pointed bills . |
| 23 | Embassies still went from Moscow to the states of Europe at irregular and often long intervals and stayed only briefly . |
| 24 | Especially in exposed positions , it is sensible , for example , to trim back long stems and tallish growth in order to reduce the sail effect in wind and the resulting problem called ‘ wind rock ’ . |
| 25 | So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway . |
| 26 | He worked almost unbelievably long hours and subsisted on occasional cups of tea ( rather as Krishna Menon had done during his long , lonely London years ) . |
| 27 | We were in a sort of back room , and at one point we gave a particularly loud whoop at a particularly long word and a waiter looked in to see if we were calling for anything and then went away . |
| 28 | Group events include evening and afternoon indoor meetings , with guest speakers , films and socials , outdoor meetings , locally or visiting exciting places further afield — even long weekends or longer birdwatching holidays . |
| 29 | bill rather stout lores dark and boldly patterned underparts ; Tawny Pipit adult has equally long tail but is much less streaked . |
| 30 | I have noticed that this frustrating experience usually occurs in promising conditions when you expect to catch fish , and when these bites begin they last for unusually long periods and happen very frequently . |