Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short breaks in concentration help you to sustain much longer conversations . |
| 2 | Railway workers in both countries have had to work exceedingly long hours even for these comparatively modest rewards . |
| 3 | Paula entered the factory at the age of 17 after finishing secondary school and found that her wage was so low , she was forced to work exceptionally long hours , from 7.30 a.m. to 9.30 pm . |
| 4 | The Profitboss is lit enough to thrive on stress , to take the never-ending pressures , to work exceptionally long hours when necessary . |
| 5 | He admired so many qualities in Fisher : the shrewdness about people , the grasp of practical problems , the ability to work very long hours , the patience under abuse from the press , the humility which went with a cocksureness that was not arrogance . |
| 6 | The four-year-old won a juvenile hurdle before that and it seems trainer Jimmy FitzGerald has brought about considerable improvement by asking his four-year-old to tackle much longer distances on the Flat than last year . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal is a very busy court which has to ration its time and manage its business carefully to avoid unacceptably long delays in the determination of appeals . |
| 8 | A symmetric relation , on the other hand , holds simultaneously in both directions ; ‘ is similar to — ’ is a symmetric relation , so if A is similar to B , then it necessarily follows that B is similar to A. The second indispensable property for the relation of dominance of a hierarchy is the capacity , in principle at least , to form indefinitely long chains of elements . |
| 9 | Since his debut in 1984 , he has largely been cast in the role of workhorse for West Indies , his seemingly effortless , languid approach to the wicket enabling him to bowl fairly long spells , even in hot and humid conditions . |
| 10 | Is my hon. Friend aware that , for many years within the referral area of the Plymouth eye infirmary , people have had to wait excessively long periods not only for an initial eye examination but for subsequent treatment ? |
| 11 | And of course what Mr does not refer to in any of his submissions n is the need for new settlements in that area to be have to have very long access roads . |
| 12 | There was therefore an understandable reluctance to undertake regularly long voyages to windward in rough weather . |
| 13 | About half of the people detained under Immigration Act powers in general do not wish to challenge the decision that they should leave but they need help winding up their affairs here , contacting their friends and families and pressing the Home Office to process their cases quickly so that they do not have to spend unnecessarily long periods in prison . |
| 14 | Above all , there seemed to be little recognition of the special needs of people who were destined to spend very long periods behind bars : the long-termers were treated not very differently from the short-termers , and relatively little thought seemed to have been given to the risk of mental deterioration in an environment without stimulus . |
| 15 | I think they found that it just was n't practical to wear very long dresses ; it was alright for dressing up , but not for every day . |
| 16 | But she put it up here , I think probably to make it easier , I mean if anyone 's had , I do n't know if anyone had children in the seventies when it was the fashion to wear very long skirts , or even as I find going up and down stairs in my nightie , you 're more than likely to fall and break a leg and the baby 's neck at the same time , if you wear a long skirt . |
| 17 | It is reasonable to suppose that these language users might ( even accidentally ) hit on new combinations of phrases to produce slightly longer sentences than had hitherto been the rule : sentences , moreover , whose newly-coined significance derived from both the context of their first use and the pre-established significance of their components . |
| 18 | It uses ascii character coding , and tends to produce very long files . |