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

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1 : I was playing football on the playing field at HMS Ganges when suddenly a long bugle call playing the Still sounded from the tannoy system .
2 Suddenly a long arm came out from under the rags and a bony hand grasped Marian 's shoulder .
3 She miss you velly much a long time .
4 If the report has to be in a statutory format ( eg a long form report ) check the required format while drafting to avoid amending later .
5 Particular care is needed where reports are prepared and it is believed that a person other than the client will have access to the report and may seek to rely upon it ( eg a long form report prepared for a vendor prior to sale ) .
6 If their complexion was their most celebrated feature , then perhaps a long necklace of perfect pearls .
7 An account of the decline of partisan and religious strife , by contrast , would take us past the Hanoverian Succession — indeed , perhaps a long way past it .
8 In the case of d ) , this is perhaps a long term strategy which will yield a slow but , hopefully , steady trickle .
9 In the case of d ) , this is perhaps a long term strategy which will yield a slow but , hopefully , steady trickle .
10 They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story .
11 " He should have done so a long time ago .
12 Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out .
13 And if ‘ planning ’ is now possible at the level of the giant enterprise , perhaps straddling several branches of production , then the planning of the economy to meet social objectives is at least ‘ put on the agenda ’ : what was only a long run historical speculation in the era of smaller-scale entrepreneurial capitalism begins to look like an economically feasible proposition .
14 Since 1986 's ‘ It 's Only A Long Way Across ’ , his songs have come wrapped in an electric blanket which has been soaked in the bog-holes of Ireland and then dry cleaned in the side alleys of Greenwich Village .
15 I think I shall have to get is a decent FM radio , I use a radio more than a tape actually in the car , but mine 's only a long medium wave job .
16 It was not only a long job , but a painful one for Deborah , the backs of whose hands were pricked , scored and smeared with blood before she succeeded in freeing the lamb altogether .
17 We 've been together a long time and people in the band like Paul and Mark and Gaz have a few things to prove themselves .
18 " We 've been together a long time Her voice went thick and inarticulate .
19 ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’
20 Lastly lastly a longer question where the answer would have to be two and three sentences erm yes but do n't tell everybody .
21 ‘ Well , the first record we did for RCA , it was literally a long hallway .
22 Laze away a long summer day , lulled by the sound of green , white-fringed Atlantic waves , hundreds of miles old , endlessly washing golden sands .
23 ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly .
24 And maybe , she thought , if I 'm lucky he 'll be away a long time and I 'll meet an interesting man .
25 She was away a long time .
26 ‘ You were away a long time , ’ said Pip .
27 And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June .
28 You 've been away a long time have n't you ?
29 Oh they had it well would just be anything it was just a long roll th great big roll , just like It just sort of wrapped in a grey eh a big waterproof kind of co covering , and he would have er shirts and and er things like that for men to buy , or er and sometimes er overall or a pinny , as we said , for mother and the like of that .
30 Just a long weekend , just the two of us .
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