Example sentences of "[noun pl] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English climate , having given its clients a long series of warm sunny days , had decided that this must be paid for . |
| 2 | She had stayed at the baths a long time , probably getting a chill , but worst of all no-one would testify that the water in the pool had had a proper dose of chlorine . |
| 3 | By the mid-1960s the long campaign for ending capital punishment was nearing a climax . |
| 4 | It had taken the mice a long time to explore , they had made short excited scurrying runs across the floor , then back to the hutch , nervous , unsure , limiting themselves to a small prescribed space , only later stepping out of it , extending their freedom . |
| 5 | They are often hung between trees or old posts a long way apart , and they are extremely difficult to see . |
| 6 | Your people ripped off the land from the Indians a long time ago . |
| 7 | The date , and the exiled place of composition of its authors , suggests tellingly that the situation with which it attempts to deal is the phenomenon of fascism which seemed to have stopped in its tracks the long march of the progress of reason , and its liberating enlightenment ideals , of which Marxism was the fullest political development . |
| 8 | Phone calls are thoroughly screened ; people have to make appointments a long time in advance . |
| 9 | Two pieces of matter that are close to each other have less energy than the same two pieces a long way apart , because you have to expend energy to separate them against the gravitational force that is pulling them together . |
| 10 | But I learnt to control my baser urges a long time ago . |
| 11 | So when we say we want the laws of physics perhaps to stay constant in time , when we observe these objects a long way away we 're observing the laws of physics as they were a long time ago . |
| 12 | Sammy gave his fingers a long lick . |
| 13 | Toilets a long distance from the classroom and shared with older children |
| 14 | It took the mantri a long time to work right round the bull , from shoulder to rump down one side and then from rump to shoulder back up the other . |
| 15 | Beneath the silk hangings the long tables were covered in white linen and were thick with silver and fine china . |
| 16 | Despite the conditions the long passage was uneventful and William Lukin was refuelled and declared ready for service again by 0800 . |
| 17 | mathematicians a long time but it does help . |
| 18 | It would offer 26 places each morning and afternoon , saving some families a long trek to Corporation Road and even further afield . |
| 19 | " Things a long way off . " |
| 20 | But the things a long way off are coming nearer . " |
| 21 | They 've got a fine album and a string of great singles a long way behind them , but the Demonz have yet to have the mass market fawning at their feet , unless you count their brief appearance in the video for ‘ The Bouncer ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ It has taken many geologists a long time to accept plate tectonics ’ , Dr Blake told New Scientist at the survey 's west coast headquarters in Menlo Park , south of San Francisco . |
| 23 | In the Ministry of State Properties a long memorandum of October 1855 brought together information from the provinces concerning the abject condition of state-owned peasants . |
| 24 | The privilege of addressing the House on a Friday morning and of winning the ballot to present a private Member 's motion is , however , something of a mixed blessing for hon. Members like myself who represent constituencies a long way from London . |
| 25 | I 've been in steam stations as well as steam turbines a long time since but with steam you can use it over again . |
| 26 | A third story details a long punishment in which a child — like parts of Berlin to this day — is compelled to stand absolutely still . |
| 27 | Instead , he gave Carter and his advisers a long talk on how he saw the international situation . |
| 28 | Scenes a long way from the serenity of New College , Oxford , where the Howard League for Penal Reform is hosting a conference examining the nature , causes and treatment of violence . |
| 29 | ‘ We were friends a long time ago , during the war . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ They were friends a long time ago . |