Example sentences of "long [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought that if people such as the Iroquois of North America practised a particular type of agriculture it could be assumed that their institutions were the same as those of long dead prehistoric peoples who had a similar level of technology . |
| 2 | He is told that it is a ceremony connected with Sidi Bou Ali , a long dead Sufi mystic whose precepts many Neftis follow . |
| 3 | Not all proposals for land colonies embodied this rather idyllic hope of regenerating the long dead English peasantry from the bones of the urban residuum . |
| 4 | Some say the Big Grey Man is the ghost of a long dead giant . |
| 5 | Star still twinkling but long since extinct . |
| 6 | As regards restoration , just as we would not dream of stripping out the original interior of the Blackfriar , by the same token we would not seek to preserve a Thirties estate pub which had long since ceased to address the needs of the community it was built to serve . |
| 7 | The border will provide plenty of interest and colour from midsummer onwards , particularly at summer 's end , when many other plants have long since finished flowering . |
| 8 | These modes of thought are so deeply embedded in the collective conscious that ten years after the amalgamations , when the chief constable ( from the south ) replaced the flat cap with helmets , a number of ex-city men could not discuss the impending change without exhibiting distress and described this event as being something of an Armageddon , even though the expensive guard-style cap of the pre-amalgamation days had long since given way to what was always derided as ‘ a cheap and nasty alternative ’ . |
| 9 | I have many examples in my fieldnotes which show this mode of thought to be so ingrained , that even when the possibility of making such a journey ‘ back ’ to basic police work has long since evaporated , the supremacy of the belief still remains : |
| 10 | Here 's to you , toe , she said , raising her long clear glass of white wine and mineral water , where the ice cubes had long since melted . |
| 11 | All landmarks that he knew had long since sunk out of sight beyond the rise . |
| 12 | In a moment of youthful inspiration , the day after the funeral , he took one of his father 's bow ties , one reserved for special occasions , and opened up its seams , into which he infiltrated a message — his first poetic utterance , as he told his Spanish biographer , Alberto Manzano — long since forgotten ( or too painful to remember ? ) . |
| 13 | But they had long since agreed that there was nowhere to touch the English countryside . |
| 14 | The dog is long since gone , though not , so far as I know , as a result of its encounter with the toad . |
| 15 | That the classical wooden-bodied Pullman cars of earlier days had long since been split up and sold or scrapped was no deterrent . |
| 16 | As a septuagenarian , he made the trip to Ireland on the back of his son Eon 's motor-bike to find the Killarney Fern — long since believed gone from its single recorded site on Moel Hebog in Snowdonia . |
| 17 | Perhaps they once had the full response , but the ‘ hammer , hammer on the hard , high road ’ has long since dinned it out of them . |
| 18 | The electorate has long since rumbled Tony Benn , Eric Heffer , Dennis Skinner , Ken Livingstone and the rest . |
| 19 | Their votes will be vital if seats long since lost to the Conservatives are to be regained . |
| 20 | He has proved himself as a coach , and any doubts harboured at Anfield about his judgement have long since been swept away . |
| 21 | It is difficult to deal sensibly with the craze unless we remember that it is the latest in a series of recognisably similar phenomena , which the law has had difficulty in regulating : the early ‘ happenings ’ , influenced by LSD ; the ‘ blues parties ’ , which were the last to hit the headlines ; the continuing ‘ northern soul ’ craze , and no doubt others which even the participants have long since forgotten . |
| 22 | Nature , we learn , has long since sickened and died . |
| 23 | The problem is the familiar one when trying to establish the exact fate of millions of Stalin 's victims : detailed records of the security police , if they ever existed , have probably long since been destroyed . |
| 24 | Radical plans to remodel the education system , especially anything which resembled the undermining of the comprehensive secondary schools against which Tories had long since railed , were scrapped . |
| 25 | By the 1960s the Regal had long since had its day . |
| 26 | My nose had long since lost all feeling and I massaged it back into life . |
| 27 | How extraordinary that people her own age should believe such grotesque , non-scientific ideas as that a man could be resurrected from the dead after , and a horrible thought it was , after being crucified ; and how fantastic that they should believe that all the dead would rise from their graves — all of them , those countless millions , millions upon millions , rising from the clay into which they had , long since , dissolved … . |
| 28 | He had long since given up reading the tabloids . |
| 29 | Her red hair was a beacon in the night — a flame in which he had long since been charred . |
| 30 | No one worried much ; people in a hurry have long since found another way to travel . |