Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Close to the centre however , lines of sight on the far side are actually brighter because the stellar densities sampled are almost the same , but the lines of sight on the far side traverse a longer path of stars . |
| 2 | The agronomists ’ reports on the spring-sowing campaign reveal a long list of mainly unfulfilled bureaucratic resolutions passed down from Moscow . |
| 3 | Also the carbs on the SD1 V8 engine take a long time to return to idle when you take your foot off the throttle . |
| 4 | Usually the microscope will provide a wider viewing field but a short working distance , whilst the telescope give a longer working distance but smaller field of view . |
| 5 | well none of us sort take a long |
| 6 | Some fromage frais and quark have a longer shelf life and may be kept for a week or ten days after purchase . |
| 7 | The political and economic origins of this approach to soil conservation go a long way to explaining it . |
| 8 | Both orchestra and conductor have a long list of international commitments every year . |
| 9 | At present , we are the only party prepared to grasp the nettle and to recognise that consumers ' interests require both effective competition in the marketplace — the Government have a long way to go before they create that — and effective regulation where the market can not produce a solution . |
| 10 | The frailties of the holiday romance have a long history . |
| 11 | Ions with the lowest energy ( E ) observed on any one field line have the longest time-of-flight , t , and were therefore the first injected : they crossed the magnetopause at X , a distance d from the satellite ( where is the ion mass ) . |
| 12 | Because she had been reluctant to meet up with Celeste again , she had sat in a public stand a long way away from the private seating , the grid , the pits , but now she raced back towards them . |
| 13 | PRE-FORMED SHAPE Use a long spirit level on and around the pool to mark an outline of the outer edge on the ground , cutting through any turf with a knife |
| 14 | Such associations of sexual deviance and political threat have a long history sedimented into our language and culture . |
| 15 | Large expanses of privet need a longer blade , and the extra cost will be offset by the time saved . |
| 16 | If your direction of approach is over 60° to the outbound track turn the longer way round , with adjustment for wind . |
| 17 | Although ODT 2.0 will make SunSoft , USL and NeXT work that much harder for market share the longer term future of SCO 's Unix strategy is somewhat less clear . |
| 18 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 19 | The Sun is certainly 5000 million years old , and by stellar standards it is no more than middle-aged ; not for another 5000 million years at least will anything drastic happen to it , so that we on Earth have a long reprieve ( unless , of course , we decide to indulge in another major war , which would not destroy the world but would certainly wipe out the human race ) . |