Example sentences of "[adv] the long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly the long train wound past the derelict shanty-town houses between the water and the tracks where Malcolm Lowry was writing his great novel , ‘ Under the Volcano ’ , straight to the Pacific terminal of the transcontinental railway . |
| 2 | I think the main reason for so many wasps this year is to , warm summers , and but it 's basically the long summer period , because we started , you see on the wasp complaints in May , which we do n't really start until half way through June , and we kept going right through , right until the middle of October , and they normally stop round the end of August , so that 's the main reason ; a very long , hot summer . |
| 3 | Carr : Yes , obviously the long term contract brings stability which will allow us to maximise training to achieve higher levels of flexibility and efficiency in offshore working . |
| 4 | The long back legs of such hunters look highly suitable for running , and as they did so the long tail may have been held erect as a kind of counter-balance ( see p. 116 ) . |
| 5 | And so the long lease was dreamt up by Grand Metropolitan and taken up with enthusiasm by the rest of the national pub owners and brewers . |
| 6 | So the longest side is |
| 7 | So the longer side is always the hypotenuse . |
| 8 | He turned away from them , and rode onwards to where the Circle began to grow more empty to the north , and soon there was only the long bar of the outer wall between him and the hills . |
| 9 | Playing two fewer matches , they finished only one try and 50 points short of their records and , in winning all 37 matches after losing to New Zealand in October 1989 , put together the longest sequence of victories by any Welsh senior club since the war . |
| 10 | Her letters , like his own comment in 1913 on his letters to her , suggest that at eighteen he had begun for her eyes alone the long process of self-discovery with assured confidence of her support . |
| 11 | In mid-afternoon the first glints of steel in the spring sunshine began to appear on the high ground of Scremerston Brae , and soon the long hill down to sea-level was covered in a vast tide of men and horses , armour gleaming , banners waving , under a faint haze of steam rising from thousands of beasts long ridden , muting the colours of plumed helmets , heraldic surcoats , painted shields and horse-trappings . |
| 12 | Thus the Long Gilt suffered a mild setback in 1988 and 1989 as the public sector finances moved from deficit to surplus and the Treasury instituted a " buy-back " programme for long-dated gilts . |
| 13 | Then instead of the whole body being thrown into waves , just the long fin is . |
| 14 | The new bridge , designed by W.H. Barlow , was of wrought-iron lattice girder construction , like the old , but proper scientific calculations were made this time to allow for lateral wind pressure — the first time scientific studies of such stresses were made — and the new Tay Bridge , still the longest railway bridge in Britain at just over 2 miles , has stood solid for 100 years , linking Dundee with Fife . |
| 15 | They would have to come home the long way round . |
| 16 | And she began to walk home the long way round so as not to bump into anybody . |
| 17 | And the squ hypotenuse is always the longest side . |
| 18 | The great Dust Bowl which Maggie has seen only from the air , was once the long flank , the turning of the armpit of a dragon greater than Fenna , the great dragon laid out across the world its tail cooled by the oceans of the Antarctic and its breath , no longer fire , turned to ice around its head in the most northerly places of the globe . |
| 19 | Raymond Williams ( 1921–1988 ) described himself as ‘ Welsh European ’ , novelist ( BORDER COUNTRY , SECOND GENERATION , THE VOLUNTEERS ) and dramatist ; founder of the New Left and later active in the Socialist Society ; a lifelong commentator on culture , media , the arts and contemporary affairs ( eg. THE LONG REVOLUTION , CULTURE AND SOCIETY , COMMUNICATIONS , TOWARDS THE YEAR 2000 ) . |
| 20 | Hence the long history of Factory Acts , the Alkali Inspectorate and so on , a history of regulation to correct detrimental externalities by direct or indirect means . |
| 21 | If you build a relief road which is fairly tightly in to the built up area , that relief road will cater for both the long distance bypassable traffic and the local traffic . |
| 22 | Huge log fires were burning in the open fireplaces in both the Long Hall , and the Big Drawing Room . |
| 23 | At 700,000 words , it is also the longest work of fiction of this or any other season . |
| 24 | Statistics for average turn-length alone are liable to mislead , however , and what is likely to be more immediately conspicuous to the reader , is that in a number of scenes Anderson has by far the longest turn : in both scene one and three , for example , Anderson produces turns of over 100 words . |
| 25 | This will be by far the longest record for any society , a record which now breaks off in the 1880s . |
| 26 | And , again , the monkeys , like ourselves , are still more lizards than anything else ; for , as Carl Sagan points out , by far the longest period of our air-breathing history was spent evolving through the Age of Reptiles . |
| 27 | The large group of Lib-Dem supporters present gave their candidate by far the longest ovation of the evening , holding up Peter Jenks 's message . |
| 28 | Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure ; Men love in haste but they detest at leisure … |
| 29 | Clarify the overall aim ( ie the longer term end result ) . |
| 30 | Here the longer hair , known as ‘ feathering ’ , on this Irish Setter is being brushed to best effect . |