Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I mean think about it as long term planning , and certainly for those under er sixty the long term becomes extremely long term because er you know you 're looking at perhaps a third of your life er which is er still to be accounted for . |
| 2 | The baby 's skin was a soft creamy white and her dark lashes so long and silky they defied credibility . |
| 3 | The liver needs even longer to remove all the alcohol from that one night 's binge — about 13 hours . |
| 4 | Extension of the grounds for divorce took even longer to enact and was not achieved until 1937 . |
| 5 | However quick she was he always thought her work took too long and prevented them doing the more pleasurable things he had in mind . |
| 6 | Stirling is not surprised the error took so long to find . |
| 7 | Antarctic islands that lie north of the northern limit of pack ice have markedly longer summers and milder winters than those that are invested by pack ice . |
| 8 | For some goods it may be appropriate to permit cancellation at no charge provided sufficiently long notice is given . |
| 9 | Similarly , significantly more traffic was seen and the junction took significantly longer to pass through . |
| 10 | Why , in spite of all these factors , has an increase in population taken so long to achieve ? |
| 11 | There was therefore an understandable reluctance to undertake regularly long voyages to windward in rough weather . |
| 12 | We speak of a revolution ; and yet this intellectual transformation took so long to accomplish that there is no straightforward parallel with a political revolution . |
| 13 | After the early victories in Bath and Cheltenham , the faces of party supporters gathered at the Liberal Club in Mr Ashdown 's Yeovil constituency grew progressively longer as it became clear the predicted breakthrough was not going to happen . |
| 14 | After the early victories in Bath and Cheltenham , the faces of party supporters gathered at the Liberal Club in Mr Ashdown 's Yeovil constituency grew progressively longer as it became clear the predicted breakthrough was not going to happen . |
| 15 | bill rather stout lores dark and boldly patterned underparts ; Tawny Pipit adult has equally long tail but is much less streaked . |
| 16 | The depressing view of the unsightly pylons marching across the valley floor , heavy traffic thundering along the Woodhead Pass road , five reservoirs and a disused railway line , is soon left behind as you negotiate the tussocky grass slops below Long Gutter Edge towards the entrance to Wildboar Clough . |
| 17 | I did n't think this game took so long |
| 18 | Even the known and tried types of temporary bridge took too long to erect and were difficult to construct . |
| 19 | The fore-arm alone was 2.5 metres long , but it was suggested that the creature had disproportionately long fore-limbs , possibly resembling a dinosaurian sloth . |
| 20 | The simple reason that the PC took so long to catch up is a direct result of its design . |
| 21 | The journey seemed very long , and it was late at night before the train reached Geneva . |
| 22 | Because you can use a particular sort of algebra , based on the so-called binary system , which greatly shortens and simplifies problems , which might at first sight seem terribly long and complicated . |
| 23 | He contends that the style of operation of the CNAA is inimical to this task and that course validation takes too long and compromises in course design which arise from the resolution of the often marked differences within validating boards affect adversely the quality of the work of polytechnics . |
| 24 | But surely it 's not possible for a man to live so long ? ’ |
| 25 | So , why has the PC taken so long to get to grips with the market and how is it faring today , some two years after the phrase ‘ desktop publishing ’ was coined . |
| 26 | But she put it up here , I think probably to make it easier , I mean if anyone 's had , I do n't know if anyone had children in the seventies when it was the fashion to wear very long skirts , or even as I find going up and down stairs in my nightie , you 're more than likely to fall and break a leg and the baby 's neck at the same time , if you wear a long skirt . |
| 27 | The four-year-old won a juvenile hurdle before that and it seems trainer Jimmy FitzGerald has brought about considerable improvement by asking his four-year-old to tackle much longer distances on the Flat than last year . |
| 28 | A 70-page list of sea defences in the report finds that long stretches of England 's coastline defences are in ‘ poor ’ , condition because of old age . |
| 29 | The 36-year-old Lethal Weapon star took so long to change it that officials cancelled his certificate . |
| 30 | The food taking too long , we 'll ring them up tomorrow , but historically , we 've found that by tonight , they 've usually sorted the problem out . |