Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a long " in BNC.

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1 A former miner , Joe was presented with a cheque together with good wishes for a long and happy retirement .
2 Both government and local authorities have failed to put money into capital projects for a long long time .
3 May the Town Crier remain in the very capable hands of the college students and lecturers for a long time to come .
4 The most interesting result is that it gives quicker search times for a long word list over the 26-way methods .
5 The maid stared into his eyes for a long moment and then suddenly turned away .
6 Fand looked her in the eyes for a long moment ; and it was difficult for Ruth to face the utter loneliness of that gaze .
7 But just for once Jake refrained from attacking her , though he held her eyes for a long , dangerous moment .
8 She met his eyes for a long while , then nodded .
9 He fondled her between her long legs for a long time , and she remained still for him .
10 Following the pre-meiotic 5-phase interval , the cells proceed as spermatocytes through a long meiotic prophase and then through the two cell divisions leading to the production of haploid gametes .
11 Barry Stewart , defending , said Watson and Paul Cocker had had the offences hanging over their heads for a long time , adding : ‘ It was Darren Cocker 's godfather who was the tragic victim of crime . ’
12 Vadinamia has its own ultra-tight security that has been frustrating spies for a long time .
13 I was busy trying to set a grammar school on a new course , meeting the heads of the other secondary schools for a long and sticky evening in the north Oxfordshire village of Adderbury , and experiencing some of the excitements and discomforts involved in shuffling and reorganization : it was the year in which C. P. Snow published his Corridors of Power .
14 Also within the /a/ system , however , there is a high incidence of back varieties of /a/ : in BV , this vowel is realized in certain following consonantal environments as a long , back vowel , which is in many contexts virtually identical to RP ( as in RP dance , bath ) ; on a superficial view we may therefore be tempted to believe that speakers are adopting this external norm .
15 When you round out the aircraft floats for a long way and flies very nose down .
16 I got up feeling bilious and with a burning headache , wobbling from the previous day 's struggle , as if I were finding my legs after a long illness .
17 Gaughan held his head in his hands after 23 minutes when Shrewsbury defender Dean Spink headed just over his own bar while trying to clear another effort , and the former Sunderland man forced Perks to his knees with a long range right foot shot .
18 ‘ Out of the stuff I 've heard , ‘ This Is Not A Song ’ by The Frank & Walters is one of the most moving songs in a long time .
19 Slung across his back were two fishing rods in a long brown sheath and strapped to a bracket behind his seat was the basket from the picnic .
20 The object of the game , to construct small words from a long word , is made more interesting by the use of graphics .
21 Requesting the sales girl to make up the bill , he 'd proceeded to lower his dark head , his arms closing about her like steel bands as he 'd possessed Laura 's lips in a long , slow and devastating kiss .
22 ‘ No — I definitely am not ! ’ she sighed happily , unable to say any more as his mouth possessed her lips in a long , slow , lingering kiss .
23 And hearing these voices from a long , long way away .
24 Even so , we are taking the first steps in a long journey towards an understanding of the body clock and the way it adjusts to our environment .
25 Butler and Stokes argue that the main source of new electoral strength for Labour in 1945 was the mobilisation of manual workers who had grown up in homes without a long tradition of participation in electoral politics .
26 The Isle of Wight cable does without because it transmits monomode signals on a long wavelength ( 1300 nm ) .
27 One way to reduce mobility is to offer promises of long-term employment , with the prospect of wage increases rising by promotion steps on a long ladder of continuous employment .
28 Looking into her face he repeated her words on a long drawn-out breath .
29 The large amounts of data needed for such an analysis were obtained by means of a participant observation method which allowed the investigator to record speakers over a long period , returning to collect more data if specific gaps emerged in the course of the analysis ( cf. 3.1 ) .
30 The Unwins who had their photographs taken each side of their panting winner , now covered across the shoulders by a long , triumphant blanket of flowers .
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