Example sentences of "[v-ing] to a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an Irish prime minister once said after listening to a long debate between his cabinet colleagues : ‘ I understand how it works in practice . |
| 2 | According to a long and dominant tradition , the physical is bound up with the spatial . |
| 3 | Viciously beaten and sexually abused , he sustained series injury leading to a long round of hospitals , major brain surgery and permanent disability . |
| 4 | Round the back you would step out on to a paved patio , leading to a long garden overlooking a field . |
| 5 | He had a narrow mournful face , tapering to a long pointed chin . |
| 6 | They refrained from responding to a long series of statements by senior Chinese officials which contradicted both the letter and the spirit of the Joint Declaration - including an assurance , for example , that the post-1997 Hong Kong press would be free for ‘ as long as it did not publish anything detrimental to China 's national interest ’ . |