Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 During October the European free market price for 99.5 per cent pure cobalt , which had been £15 per lb ( roughly $33 000 per tonne ; £1 = $1.80 ) — or as low as $11 per lb for long term contracts direct with supplier — shot up to around $30 per lb .
2 Medium-sized brown waders. with long bill and short legs , breeding in marshes , bogs , damp meadows , wet moors and heaths ; in winter at freshwater margins with fairly thick vegetation .
3 More to the point , in its registration statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission , IBM said it intended to issue up to $3,000m of long term debt and preferred stock during the next year or so .
4 One recent estimate was that the private sector carries out 15% of elective surgery and 59% of abortions and provides 58% of long term care of the elderly and 7% of acute psychiatry .
5 The company wants to open a microwave link between its headquarters in Long Acre and its main transmitter in Britannic House , less than 3 km away .
6 There is no more effective means for long term evangelism than preparing a team in relationship with a leader , moving in , and planting a church !
7 Moreover , they are often people with long experience of the area where you live , and of your particular problem .
8 Their third single , All Right Now , has become a classic for people with long hair and tight jeans .
9 Although this transfer of responsibility makes sense in many ways , it hampers continuity of care for a group of people with long term needs .
10 There has , however , been an increasing recognition in the United States over the past 25 years that community based services for people with long term mental illness have too often been fragmented .
11 Continuity of care refers both cross sectionally , to a comprehensive range of services for people with long term mental illness , and longitudinally , to emphasise the need for enduring and possibly indefinite care for a substantial proportion of this group .
12 In practice case management for people with long term mental illness has developed into a range of techniques that can be described along 12 different axes ( box 2 ) , which aim to ensure that patients with long term psychiatric disorders receive consistent and continuing services for as long as they are required and that services do not focus inappropriately on patients with less severe conditions .
13 It is , however , much more important where the health authority is the main purchaser of community services — for example , in services for mental health , particularly in those for people with long term and severe mental illness and complex needs .
14 It has been the predominant mode of care for people with long term care needs , whether their needs are concerned with mental illness , learning difficulty , mental handicap , age related needs or physical handicap .
15 On New Year 's Eve people in long evening dresses or in dinner jackets mingle in the streets of Funchal side by side with ‘ mountain men ’ in their woollen hats who have come to Funchal with their wives and children in the family 's lorry — which is often decorated with Christmas tree , paperchains and balloons .
16 Large species with long incubation and growth periods , for example swans and geese , are particularly pressed for time .
17 Canary set out to purchase the base airframes for the planned conversions and marginally flyable Texans and Vibrators were collected from across North America and ferried to the modification headquarters at Long Beach , California .
18 An unexpected bonus came up from the Uncle Ben 's food team whereby , regardless of the convection temperature , lkg of long grain dry rice cooked with 2.5 litres of water in 20 minutes on full power .
19 Even when you have convinced the travel agent that there is such a place , you are likely to become involved in a series of long telephone conversations .
20 This project will investigate all 74 cases together with a series of long term detention case under the 1964 Act .
21 Fishing for carp at long range is , on some waters , essential for success .
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