Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see they , they 've only got so long on this site with that van |
| 2 | Many corporations have top heavy , vertical organization structures and new ideas just take too long to move through the business process . |
| 3 | In current practice , individual competition decisions thus contain very long and detailed preambles setting out the reasons for the operative part which is , by comparison , quite short . |
| 4 | The foal 's legs still seemed too long for its body and it still was not sure where the four of them were going , but this did not deter it from frisking about . |
| 5 | do n't usually go that long |
| 6 | You may also need slightly longer for a panel interview . |
| 7 | The team also found that long term potentiation led to the persistent elevation of cAMP in the cells , while short term potentiation was associated with only a transient elevation of cAMP . |
| 8 | The results also cover much longer periods than are possible with modern experimental field studies and they are based on direct evidence of intercomparable past conditions . |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal is a very busy court which has to ration its time and manage its business carefully to avoid unacceptably long delays in the determination of appeals . |
| 10 | In many cases this list already numbers over 100 , so correction techniques applied to such a long list would probably take too long to be worthwhile implementing , and the results from such techniques would produce many more candidates which would all have to be processed through the remaining stages of the recognition system . |
| 11 | THE cast list of the real-life royal soap opera is now getting so long and so complicated that all except its most avid followers can be forgiven for losing track . |
| 12 | People who do shift work often choose far longer hours than the basic hours that the Labour party would have them work . |
| 13 | Herbivores typically have very long guts containing various kinds of fermenting bacteria , since grass is a poor-quality food and needs a lot of digesting . |
| 14 | He started by doing stints in the three main factories in London , Manchester and Edinburgh , often working very long hours . |
| 15 | Residential care is very labour intensive , and fundamental to the viability of private homes is the heavy involvement of the owners and their families , often working very long hours . |
| 16 | Some researchers noted a consistent relationship between the mean length of utterance of the adult 's speech and that of the child so that , during development , the adult is invariably using slightly longer utterances than the child . |
| 17 | Well I did n't even wait that long . |
| 18 | It was Two Seven and that even seems quite long you know |
| 19 | The result is that I rarely hear students chatting about science — it would simply take too long to formulate a question and answer . |
| 20 | He talked about repetition in fin-de-siecle opera , necessary because audiences then took so long to grasp a musical point ; and about Debussy 's hasty orchestration of the work after years of private piano performance . |
| 21 | Male indigo birds sport beautiful metallic blue plumage , while male whydahs sometimes possess spectacularly long tails . |
| 22 | It therefore appears that long stretches of ( AT ) n can present good bleomycin cleavage sites . |
| 23 | corinder and no more except on occasions with great the bowl never wanted washing , the boys polished , polished them with their spoons till they shone again and when they , when they had to form this operation , which never took very long , the bowl , they would sit staring at the copper with such eager eyes as if they could of devoured a of which it was composed . |
| 24 | ‘ I never waited so long to play a match and I only played three games . |