Example sentences of "[subord] [vb pp] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clamour of conflicting emotions warred within her while her treacherous body arched greedily to every movement he made , answering each speaking gesture as fluently as if used to long practice . |
| 2 | Like skin-brushing , the body may fail to respond to the same oil if used for longer than three to four weeks continuously . |
| 3 | Even fresh food , if stored for long periods , will lose its vitamin content . |
| 4 | Perhaps , if left for long enough girls may kill one another also , but it would have taken a far longer time to happen . |
| 5 | Oeppen has continued to investigate the structure of projection models as applied to long runs of data from the past . |
| 6 | However , when observed over long periods , many species are found to be generalist in that individuals of them are capable of taking advantage of ‘ specialist ’ interactions at any one time : the ‘ anachronisms ’ show this , as do the generalized pollinators on islands where plants have ‘ left their pollinators behind ’ , e.g. a cetoniid beetle , Mauseolopsis aldabrensis , visits 58% of all flowering species , native or introduced , of all colours and morphology , on the coral atoll of Aldabra off the African coast , but it shows a remarkably high degree of constancy in its foraging flights . |