Example sentences of "[adv] in the long run " in BNC.
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| 1 | fixations might do better in the long run by holding out until you 've got enough cash to buy the real thing . |
| 2 | They argue , on pragmatic grounds , that judges must sometimes act as if people had legal rights , because acting that way will serve society better in the long run . |
| 3 | Is the community so anxious that its judges not behave as pragmatists that this " noble lie " will help him serve its true interests better in the long run ? |
| 4 | Her looks and her vibrant personality had always won the day for her — but perhaps in the long run that had n't been a good thing , because now those weapons had failed her she was floundering , rudderless . |
| 5 | So in the long run I think his objectivity may have helped a little bit . |
| 6 | Well , you may win , but your counterparts will think they 've lost and so in the long run will you . |
| 7 | So in the long run , first of all we saved ourselves an initial risk outlay of a quarter of a million pounds on legal fees , the second thing is that we now have that common land back under control , and within ten years we will recoup all of that money . |
| 8 | It is only in the long run that a match gradually emerges between what is seen to happen and what is said to happen . |
| 9 | Where government introduces measures that exclude people from resources long since used by them , the people come to view the project as a zero-sum game ( Thomson in Glantz , ed. 1977 ) , where their loss is exactly others ' gain , and conservation will not in the long run lead to an increase in their incomes . |
| 10 | Not in the long run . |
| 11 | He will not in the long run profit from arrangements that turn the surviving research institutes into training grounds for emigrant specialists . |
| 12 | Thus in the long run , taking account of the capacity cost of building the extra power stations , the marginal cost of supplying peak users is very high . |
| 13 | I mean you 've got to try and keep yourself afloat , and then even that 's not going to help you , if nobody comes along and picks you up either , so I mean that But I mean I I did n't Oh well I Suppose I could say I gave up hope a few times but obviously if you s The struggle to survive comes through in the long run , and I mean it 's it 's not easy to give up hope , |
| 14 | ‘ Contacts at professional and academic level , seminars , familiarisation with techniques , will build up a rapport which tends to pay off in the long run , ’ he said . |
| 15 | If society 's resource could be used to make more output , even the poor might be better off in the long run . |
| 16 | Ruthless and totalitarian , of necessity , yet also in the long run cherishing the human race , although it must needs manacle the minds of men ; absolutely , as never before . |
| 17 | Selecting the right commercial model will not only ensure that you are complying with the food safety regulations , but will also in the long run reduce the repair and replacement costs . |
| 18 | Whether that would have been , at that time , for the benefit of the mass of the Chinese people we 're talking about erm I do n't think I , I rather think that the er turn that Mao took probably in the long run , in the long term , was to the benefit of the mass of people erm the peasantry , the workers in China because I think the alternative would have been erm international exploitation . |
| 19 | Nevertheless it must be recognized that most of the killing of rightists in the Republican zone was spontaneous and that the government sought , successfully in the long run , to bring it to an end . |
| 20 | Even so , honest advertisement of strength providing cues that can not be faked may count most in the long run . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | It seems to even out in the long run , although sometimes one has to give a wry smile when a customer dithers over one of ‘ hers ’ and one of ‘ mine ’ — then chooses ‘ hers ’ . |
| 23 | At present , Ann led and Megan followed , but that would sort itself out in the long run . |
| 24 | Mankind will lose out in the long run if wild varieties of crop plant species are allowed to die out as it will mean that |
| 25 | Most caddies have their own way of getting one back in the long run . |
| 26 | So you know she she said he gets it back in the long run . |
| 27 | This is entirely normal and may even in the long run be healthy : who knows ? |
| 28 | Although Q ' ; is the socially efficient output , society can not force the monopolist to produce here in the long run . |
| 29 | Then in the long run I did in fact to Superintendent about the information we had gleaned from this telephone call . |
| 30 | 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 . |