Example sentences of "[art] very long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This is elicited , after the very long delay of 400 msec , by the visual presentation of a semantically improbable word ( for example , the word ‘ socks ’ in ‘ He spread the warm bread with socks ’ ) . |
| 5 | The government promised a White Paper on student finance , but the very long delay before it finally appeared in November 1988 suggests that there were problems in devising a suitable alternative to grants . |
| 6 | It is a burden that Russia could do without , but at least it is far cheaper than maintaining an army of occupation in what Richard III might have called the very long winter of discontent . |
| 7 | ‘ I flung my arms round her and we walked the very long way to the terminal in the pouring rain and it did n't matter at all . ’ |
| 8 | Erlich , rookie Fed , had demanded of the local police that they get a man up there , up to the nests , that they get each of the nests down , that they sift each of the nests on the very long chance that the storks had lifted a fibre of torn clothing to bind a nest wall . |
| 9 | Cecil recalls that one of the bases was Great Ashfield and other Woodbridge , one of the three emergency strips located on the east coast , Cecil particularly recalling the very long runway there . |
| 10 | Phosphate is the least problem and , perhaps because of the almost profligate use of bone meal and the very long time it takes for the phosphate to be released by bacterial decomposition , is very seldom indeed the cause for worry . |
| 11 | There are limitations to the use of scintigraphy in children with pseudo-obstruction , such as the very long transit time for orally ingested capsules to reach the colon , the impossibility of peroral cannulation of the right colon , and the poor patient cooperation with lying quietly under a gamma camera . |
| 12 | It was reorganised in 1721 ; and from the 1750s onwards the foreign policies of the monarchy were given greater continuity by a purely personal factor — the very long tenure of the post of Court and State Chancellor , for over forty years from his appointment in 1753 , by Prince Wenzel von Kaunitz-Rietberg . |
| 13 | For although we frequently find in paintings of this period that a number of consecutive scenes are represented simultaneously in one picture , in other ways temporal considerations came to exert a decisive influence — in particular , causing painting a secco to replace al fresco , or true fresco , since the very long apprenticeship that pupils had to serve before they became proficient in fresco painting could not be maintained , and a successful painter had to work fast in order to handle all the commissions that he received . |
| 14 | The aim is to minimise costs in the very long term but the important question is the extent to which this may conflict with the short-run costs of pursuing diversity . |
| 15 | In the very long term , automated machinery is likely to incorporate automatic diagnostic equipment in order to simplify maintenance , but it is not obvious that this will necessarily reduce the skill content of craft maintenance work . |
| 16 | Certainly he did not regard large-scale state intervention as having any effect except in the very long term , since the causal conditions are located ultimately in cultural attitudes , not in the factors on which state intervention operates . |
| 17 | So , if multimedia is going to get established in other than the very long term , it is more likely to be delivered by a low cost stand-alone system such as CDTV , CD-I or even DVI , if a low cost dedicated player can be devised . |
| 18 | Close beside Xi is the huge eclipsing binary VV Cephei , which has the very long period of 7430 days ; the next eclipse is not due until 1996 , when the magnitude will drop from its usual 4.9 to about 5.2 . |
| 19 | It opens with a very long sex scene in a small apartment . |
| 20 | The result can be a very long document in a complicated coding scheme , but it forms a powerful description of design information without any compromise made in accuracy . |
| 21 | Yes I I remember we went down a very long cul-de-sac at one stage on self containment did n't we . |
| 22 | This suggested that the red shift was instead caused by the expansion of the universe , which , in turn , meant that the object was a very long distance away . |
| 23 | Seb started , as though his mind had suddenly returned from a very long distance . |
| 24 | The return trek can seem like a very long haul but all the effort seems well worthwhile by the time you 're comfortably sitting in the bar at the Sligachan Hotel cradling your glass of single malt . |
| 25 | ‘ Negotiating with customers took time too ; it 's a very long haul in the Eastern European market , ’ comments Pomfret . |
| 26 | " And another one , " she held it towards him , a very long tumbler . |
| 27 | The radioactive potassium has a very long half-life ( 1250 million years ) so that the amount lost is extremely small relative to the total amount of potassium present and can not be measured . |
| 28 | Even for a very long text , about half of the words found will only occur once . |
| 29 | backing up , when I er , at , at the appeal , the medical centre made a very long presentation over the proximity , the closeness to their erm , surgery and they argued about the height of buildings , now it got passed as sheltered united , er , which means elderly and quiet occupancy . |
| 30 | However , with increasing store capacities and the presence of addressing mode fields , the use of three-address instructions makes for a very long instruction format , and the technique is not now used . |