Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses . |
| 2 | This is an acquired skill which develops over a long period . |
| 3 | The manner of Biggs 's defeat was to say the least surprising and on this evidence Mason has still a long way to go before he can think of himself as a genuine contender for the world championship . |
| 4 | Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language . |
| 5 | Maria has quite a long job . |
| 6 | The East Sussex region is interesting because it has a very high retired population and it also has quite a long of young people , particularly in the Brighton area , and a relatively small workforce , rather low in industry , certainly in the primary industries , erm service occupations are perhaps almost the mainstay of the local populace — now how would an area such as that rate in your chart as to needs ? |
| 7 | Sometimes this happens over a long period , as a person finds himself constrained to attend a Christian place of worship , or drawn to read the Christian scriptures . |
| 8 | Rattling in the chest ; every cold goes to the chest or nose and the catarrh hangs on a long time . |
| 9 | Released from duty and put on the case , Renko builds up a long list of suspects , Zita having slept with most of the crew and possibly some of the flatfish . |
| 10 | Unlike groups in laboratory studies , the work group is not created and then disbanded permanently ; it often survives over a long period of time . |
| 11 | The feeding process takes quite a long time , depending of course on the sizes of the individuals concerned and various environmental factors , such as temperature ( see p. 303 ) . |
| 12 | Erm something they tell you throughout the , it takes quite a long time . |
| 13 | This takes quite a long time and slowly the boat turns around . |
| 14 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 15 | This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy . |
| 16 | She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’ |
| 17 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 18 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 19 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |
| 20 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 21 | The saying , one law for them and another for us , goes back a long way . |
| 22 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 23 | ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’ |
| 24 | Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think . |
| 25 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
| 26 | Goes back a long way I 'm afraid . |
| 27 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |
| 28 | so she goes back a long way . |
| 29 | Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way . |
| 30 | Although different presentation styles are appropriate to different media this is not indicated on the list and you will need to refer either to the Quick Reference Guide ( a single folder card that you should try to keep handy ) or to Chapter 20 of the User Guide — which frankly seems rather a long way in ! |