Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] to long " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were executed or sentenced to long periods of forced labour . |
| 2 | The British War Cabinet fully recognised the implications of this , and the likelihood that many would be executed as traitors or sentenced to long terms in prison camps . |
| 3 | While disgraced former officials during 1989 continued to be convicted and sentenced to long prison terms , particularly in Uzbekistan [ see pp. 36898 ; 37129 ] , in January 1990 , however , three defendants were acquitted on the grounds of " violations of legality " by investigators . |
| 4 | A clamour of conflicting emotions warred within her while her treacherous body arched greedily to every movement he made , answering each speaking gesture as fluently as if used to long practice . |
| 5 | An office worker who has two weeks of intense sunbathing is at greater risk of developing skin cancer than a construction worker labouring outdoors and subjected to longer , but less intense doses of sunlight . |
| 6 | Oeppen has continued to investigate the structure of projection models as applied to long runs of data from the past . |