Example sentences of "long run " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 2 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 3 | The real question , wrote Harsnet , is where the short run ends and the long run begins , since in the long run long and short are also without meaning . |
| 4 | The real question , wrote Harsnet , is where the short run ends and the long run begins , since in the long run long and short are also without meaning . |
| 5 | But just as the mere thought of the long run is liable to blight any work on which one is engaged , so the thought of a tone distinct from though inseparable from the shit is guaranteed to bring even the most promising project to a halt . |
| 6 | I am not talking about the long run , he wrote . |
| 7 | I have said enough about the long run already , where there will be no more Reykjavik and no more big glass and not even any more lovers . |
| 8 | The government would save so much money in the long run if they built us all homes instead of putting us up in this dump ; it 's ridiculous . ’ |
| 9 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 10 | Gardner suggested that there was nothing wrong with apparent idleness , since it could often in the long run prove to be ‘ the true seed-plot of thought ’ . |
| 11 | IF IT worries you that the national survey on sexual habits is not going to take place , you could take comfort from the thought that it probably wo n't make a vast amount of difference in the long run . |
| 12 | And , although you do get Patsy Kensit to show that not all Boers are boors , there can be little doubt that casting like this will in the long run do more to bring about the end of white rule in South Africa than Robert Royston 's worthy but long-winded drama of apartheid horrors . |
| 13 | The defender scored with a 25-yard drive after 53 minutes , his long run one solution to Chelsea 's midfield indifference . |
| 14 | But its massed forces instinctively address the unspoken areas of emotional politics that are in the long run more fundamental . |
| 15 | In each case , London led the way , but was the first into recession , which meant in the long run that the relationship between the value of property in different areas was maintained . |
| 16 | The other fact which they had overlooked was of a different character but no less important in the long run . |
| 17 | Producing shame , anger , and futility , it is masturbation which , for Lawrence , constitutes the most pernicious evasion of otherness , becoming ‘ perhaps the deepest and most dangerous cancer of our civilization ’ , and ‘ certainly the most dangerous sexual vice that a society can be afflicted with , in the long run ’ ( ‘ Pornography ’ , 3 17 ) . |
| 18 | Arguably more important in the long run was the illusion of grandeur in the monetary field . |
| 19 | However , the more fundamental issue ( in the long run ) of sterling and the associated question of the role of the City of London seem to have been little discussed . |
| 20 | Begging or threatening tactics wo n't help in the long run either . |
| 21 | But customers who deal direct are cheaper in the long run to process than those who buy through branches . |
| 22 | It will be the show 's British premiere , but critics have expressed fears that the long run may set a precedent , making the National like any other West End theatre . |
| 23 | Diane Edwards made a long run for home to defeat Ann Williams in a modest 4min 19.46sec with Cahill just unable to get back on terms . |
| 24 | Part of the point of selling state businesses is to raise hard cash , and taking on more debt to fund worker buyouts in return for low or non-earning equity stakes ( which may prove to be worthless in the long run ) is not a real option for the government . |
| 25 | I do n't know what good it did David in the long run because what it did was cost a lot of money . |
| 26 | France : new orders dried up as the long run of 63 reactors either built or under construction came to an end and the country grappled with the problem of an over-supply of electricity . |
| 27 | And I suppose we might have lost her in the long run , but not just yet . ’ |
| 28 | And to succeed in the long run , they have to grow big . |
| 29 | Since much of equity returns are in the form of capital gains , at least in the long run , which are taxed only on realisation , personal tax on equity returns is generally in effect much lower than that on the returns to investing in a company 's debt . |
| 30 | Even such apparently small reductions in GDP growth imply big cumulative differences in the long run . |