Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | When her arms and legs grow so long that she wears the rabbit 's house like a wooden dress , her performance is magic . |
| 2 | She also wore extremely high-heeled shoes that made her legs seem even longer . |
| 3 | Well that 's what Lucy said , that it wouldnae lasted too long , I mean , it was over a year . |
| 4 | Since the enumeration of all subjects generates excessively long schedules , in practice the listing of subjects must be selective ( even if relatively long schedules are acceptable ) . |
| 5 | Relatively speaking , says Bakker , dinosaurs had quite long shanks , but not as long as modern-day runners . |
| 6 | Supercoiling also stimulates the formation of open complexes at several promoters in which these complexes have relatively long half-lives ( 24 , 25 ) . |
| 7 | P.P. 's responses had significantly longer latencies for the half-field contralateral to the lesion ( mean=1.84s , s.d. =1.67 ) compared to the good field ( mean=0.47s , s.d. =0.16 ; independent groups t=2.15 , P=0.05 ) , but there was no significant difference for L.A.H. ( affected field : mean=0.612s , s.d. =0.41 ; good field : mean=0.48 , s.d. =0.22 ) . |
| 8 | It is reasonable to suppose that these language users might ( even accidentally ) hit on new combinations of phrases to produce slightly longer sentences than had hitherto been the rule : sentences , moreover , whose newly-coined significance derived from both the context of their first use and the pre-established significance of their components . |
| 9 | These radioactive elements have very long half-lives , so the flux of radiation is effectively constant for the archaeological periods of interest in TL dating . |
| 10 | Lesser goldern plovers Pluvialis dominica make long trans-oceanic flights ; Alaskan breeding stocks cross 4000 km of the Pacific from wintering in Hawaii , while Asian stocks make even longer journeys from New Zealand and Oceania to breed in Siberia . |
| 11 | Two weeks seemed so long to begin with , but there was so much to do . |
| 12 | Yet it too must fit into the confines of Studio D. To increase its apparent depth several backdrops have been added to the sets , including one to make the corridors seem much longer . |
| 13 | Producer Steve , 20 , who recorded Undercover 's version on a £1,000 keyboard adds : ‘ I just ca n't comprehend why some bands take so long to produce records . ’ |
| 14 | For example , why is it that personnel appointments take so long to be announced when there is often no adequate reason for the delay ? |
| 15 | Regarding economic management , one tenet of monetarism is that the effects of money supply changes involve both long and variable lags , so that it assumes too much expertise on behalf of politicians to imagine they can time expansive monetary policy to their advantage . |
| 16 | Males give loud long calls which seem to function in spacing the males , and the dispersion of the females may well be related to this . |
| 17 | In fact , as they are very difficult to sex — males have slightly longer finnage and slightly larger humping of the forehead — it is best to buy half a dozen young ones and let them pair naturally , usually when they get to 5–6″ , but sometimes as early as 4″ . |
| 18 | Males and females are similar in appearance , although the males have slightly longer claws . |
| 19 | Experienced angel breeders look at the length difference of the finnage — males have slightly longer fins and sometimes show a marginally lumpy head , though these are not reliable features . |
| 20 | However , this example serves to emphasize how misleading it can be to assume that the breeding sex ratio necessarily reflects the extent to which male reproductive success varies for , even among closely related species , it is likely to be the case that males have substantially longer breeding lifespans in monogamous species than in polygynous ones ( see Wiley , 1974 ; Clutton-Brock et al . , |
| 21 | Other differences are that males have much longer finnage , and also a much more humped forehead . |
| 22 | To the shrew , 24 hours seems so long that it divides it up into many smaller intervals of activity and rest , effectively experiencing many days within one rotation of the Earth . |
| 23 | He says it is not in the interest of patients to wait so long to see a consultant . |
| 24 | Patients had significantly longer transit times ( 9 v 7 and 17 v 11 seconds : p=0.027 and 0.002 for erect and supine postures respectively ) . |
| 25 | Patients had significantly longer median oesophageal transit times than controls in both erect and supine postures ( 9 v 7 and 17 v 11 seconds with the corresponding p=0.027 and 0.002 for erect and suppine postures respectively ) . |
| 26 | I do n't understand why some athletes take so long to recover . |
| 27 | I do n't understand why some athletes take so long to recover . |
| 28 | Change is probably the biggest sitting with their arms crossed quite long periods involved with what is going on people who sit with their folding sometimes change of attitude how people react |
| 29 | Not only would these novel reactors take too long to develop , but the electricity that comes from them will , in most cases , be needlessly expensive . |
| 30 | However , given Linotype 's apparent dedication to the market with a promised 600dpi device and moves by other vendors to develop the same market it does n't look as though the current players have too long to wait before they have some real competition . |