Example sentences of "[art] [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Homemade panettone made with top quality peel and fruit has a wonderful flavour that justly rewards the rather long preparation time . |
| 2 | Hence the rather long question that makes up the sub-title of this section . |
| 3 | As yet un-named , although with tentative grading of around E7 6b , the first ascent included an exiting finish in the dark — hence the rather long pitch length . |
| 4 | Horses need sufficient good feed , and due to the extremely long length of their intestines they need a lot of roughage — that means good pasture or hay . |
| 5 | The simple molecules from which the DNA is mainly built are of only four kinds , but they are grouped in trios and arranged in a particular and significant order on the immensely long DNA molecule . |
| 6 | The extra long trigger ( 50mm ) means that two or three fingers can be used , rather than the conventional single-finger action , thus spreading the load . |
| 7 | She struggled into Penry 's thick white sweatshirt , rolled the ludicrously long sleeves back , then began tidying the bed . |
| 8 | It was the need to provide so many public areas which produced the enormously long frontages of these stations , the buildings often as long as the platforms themselves . |
| 9 | In the enormously long statement which followed the Communists were branded as ‘ Vipers in the bosom ’ . |
| 10 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the greatest injustice to genuine asylum seekers is to be found in the enormously long delays that occur in the processing of applications ? |
| 11 | A quarter of convicts are over 40 ( Table 2.1 ) , mainly because of the exceptionally long periods that ‘ lifers ’ spend in gaol : the minimum period to be served is fourteen years . |
| 12 | The difficulties encountered in negotiating all the necessary approvals , particularly the funding , for a scheme which departed from the norm of fair rent housing explain the exceptionally long period of four years that preceded commencement of the building contract . |
| 13 | Add to that the dreadfully long hours that doctors and nurses have to work — sometimes 16-18 hour shifts — and it 's little wonder that mistakes are made . |
| 14 | Kuhn argued that the comparatively long periods of normal science were punctuated by crises when the existing paradigms broke down and a new paradigm , and eventually orthodoxy , would become established ; the Copernican revolution was a prime example of this . |
| 15 | The comparatively long time intervals between such environmental vicissitudes may be characterized by stasis in ecosystems as well as the component species . |
| 16 | and et all ( 362 , 355 & 359 ; 1993 showed that these organs ( among others ) are sites at which the virus multiplies during the often long latency period in AIDS , but more will have to be known of this process before it can be the basis of a routine assay . |
| 17 | Much the easiest way to assemble a larger labour force was to buy slaves , and the Dutch were ready to help with this , giving the fairly long credit that anyone who wanted to become a planter would need in order to finance his purchases of slaves and of machinery to crush the cane and take the first steps in refining it . |
| 18 | Dominique gets out and sits on the surprisingly long bonnet . |
| 19 | Adams ( 1971 ) found no significant asymmetry in a dot enumeration task but it is possible that the relatively long exposure duration he employed was sufficient to eliminate any potential difference between the visual fields . |
| 20 | It was the relatively long period of life from birth to the end of physical dependence on the parents that built into the human being , an eradicable awareness of his vulnerability and a deeply-rooted instinctive expectation that his needs will be met from a source outside himself . |
| 21 | McKenna , recognising the species specific nature of the sudden infant death syndrome and the relatively narrow time range of the majority of deaths , drew attention to both the relatively long period of physical dependence of the human infant and the ways in which caring practices vary with historical and cultural contexts . |
| 22 | Here we report an exception : PSR1718–19 , in the globular cluster NGC6342 , is in a 6.2-hour eclipsing binary system , but has the relatively long period of 1s . |
| 23 | Most importantly , the folded state of the subunit is stabilized by extensive van der Waals interactions and hydrogen bonds between the unusually long helices of R2 . |
| 24 | Using × 7 , Iota is in the same field with g ( 4.3 , orange ) , l ( a Cepheid , with a range of from 3.4 to 4.8 and the unusually long period , for a Cepheid , of 35 days ) , R ( a Mira variable , with a range of from 4 to 10 and therefore easy with binoculars for part of its 309-day period ) and the red N Velorum ( 3.1 ) . |
| 25 | The unexpectedly long time between initial bleed and randomisation in the surgery and sclerotherapy groups ( 26 and 20 days respectively ) was caused by several factors : ( i ) If rebleeding occurred randomisation was delayed until stability for a minimum of five days and been achieved . |
| 26 | Our attempts at determining both the electric field strength and the potential have started with considering the effect of a single point charge and have been followed by an integration for obtaining the total effect of the infinitely long line charge . |
| 27 | He writes : ‘ It seems to me that a great number of our explicit or implicit theories , our methods and preferences are heavily influenced by the very long traditions of analyzing mainly , or only , certain kinds of written language . |
| 28 | In the very long run , the actions of a Colombian warlord may reverberate in your family , but railing against him is a waste of time . |
| 29 | First , workers as the majority group in the electorate might rationally choose to maintain capitalism , not because they are duped by the dominant ideology but because their individual interests are better met under redistributive capitalism than through a painful transition to socialism , which could only conceivably deliver net benefits in the very long run . |
| 30 | They had been long debated , but it should be emphasized how few individuals at this time believed that poverty could actually be eliminated , except perhaps in the very long run . |