Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] long [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they can expect to live more or less as long as any , as , as , as any woman does . |
| 2 | Conversely , it has also been shown that in the absence of another meal , the previous one may be kept in the stomach for more than twice as long as usual ( Chitty , 1938 ) , presumably with a gradual increase in stomach acidity , and the bones in this instance are likely to be strongly modified or even totally destroyed . |
| 3 | This does not gainsay the fundamental proposition that it is every citizen 's duty to retain self-control — at least to the extent of not violating other people 's interests — but it does open the way to a manslaughter verdict and to sentences which are rarely longer than eight years ' imprisonment ( less than half as long as the time served by many convicted of murder ) and may be considerably shorter . |
| 4 | It is interesting that Hahnemann discovered this method of dissolving insoluble materials such as gold , silver , platinum and so on long before colloid chemistry was ever dreamt of . |
| 5 | The environmental conditions with which the system is in equilibrium may shift , and only so long as the equilibrium can be set at new and workable positions can the species survive . |
| 6 | Citizens of the United Kingdom do , however , have an individual right of access to the European enforcement agencies whether Her Majesty 's government likes it or not , so long that is , and only so long as that government continues to accede to the Convention and the jurisdiction of the machinery which it establishes . |
| 7 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 8 | Learning is a ‘ free commodity ’ , but only so long as we are thinking of knowledge as a source of intrinsic , expressive rewards . |
| 9 | Conti 's opinion was that reconciliation could be achieved , but only so long as the Scriptures were understood to speak the language of common people . |
| 10 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
| 11 | He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following . |
| 12 | The list of sins , venial and otherwise , was long , but not so long as to come as a surprise . |
| 13 | But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity … |