Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 Pros fear the long bunker shot as much as amateurs do .
2 The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers .
3 No Hiding Place Sitting containers on pallets or bricks goes a long way toward preventing them from harbouring all kinds of pests under their bottoms .
4 They 're added to marzipan to improve its flavour and keeping qualities , and a little oil of bitter almonds goes a long way in much confectionery .
5 Yes , the heads using the long reach spark plugs are better ported and valved than the earlier heads .
6 The plan to make unions responsible for unofficial action arose out of the strikes in the summer on the London Underground , where an informal group of drivers and guards led a long series of stoppages over pay .
7 Shells exploded a long way away across Beirut , down by the port .
8 Kate Melville and Sue d'Argy Smith , whose daughters left the Church , as so many do , just before they became nubile , each took a hand and gave it a sharp pull , and over their heads came the long arms of Gordon the Bachelor , whose fingers stroked my hair , as countless other key personnel in the body of Christendom , South Wimbledon , stroked , shoved , pulled and all but carried me towards the stage on which I was supposed to pour out the secrets of my heart .
9 ‘ How about you , Mark … . ’ began the top man , his eyes searching the long table for the Englishman .
10 Ascending its professional hierarchies takes a long time .
11 But for Ben Hunt ; his passion for motorbikes started a long time ago .
12 Stephen saw the police cars coming a long way off , three of them in a convoy coming up the white road from Hilderbridge .
13 Good selection procedures and thorough briefing sessions go a long way towards making an overseas assignment a success .
14 The Cages formed a long connected line facing west .
15 Whichever you choose , you may believe you are responding to current fashion trends , but , in fact , both styles boast a long ancestry .
16 The Norwegians choose a long ridge walk to go back to the camp and by the time they have arrived , Tony and I have decided to take the kayaks out on to the Ocean .
17 Because the drivers had a long record of bad behaviour and convictions no such expectation existed here .
18 Single gas instantaneous water heaters have their place alongside a storage system ; the main problem with relying on a gas multi-point heater to provide all the house 's hot water is the low flow rate which means baths take a long time to fill .
19 Swindon Town and Oxford United fans have a long tradition of rivalry .
20 The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic .
21 The fragments have a long and complex history since their discovery , dating back to at least the sixteenth century .
22 But kids have a long tradition of getting the better of adults , going back to the Famous Five and beyond .
23 The glen was an obvious subject for a canal that would obviate the necessity for small vessels to make the long and hazardous voyage around Cape Wrath and the northern coast , and in 1803 Thomas Telford was commissioned to construct a waterway to link the three lochs and connect with Loch Linnhe and the Moray Firth , thus giving a continuous water surface from the Atlantic to the North Sea .
24 The Welsh lads have a long way to go before they match that sort of consistency , but it only needs one to become a permanent fixture for everything to change .
25 In Britain the divisions between the public health , general practice and hospital sectors have a long history of often quite bitter dispute .
26 The possibility of anything like that happening to the Germans seemed a long way off in those days .
27 Hardly had her damson-dripping fingers scooped a long white furrow from her thigh to her breast before the blackness would swirl back over it .
28 I hear him not answering from where I lie above them with my ear to a hole that the rats made a long , long time ago .
29 Just over the mountain in Kentucky is Harlan County , where in 1973 the miners fought a long and bitter strike .
30 Northern coal miners observed a long Christmas break and from time to time proclaimed " gaudy days " on such occasions as hearing the first cuckoo .
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