Example sentences of "and long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most experts say that the happiest — and longest — relationships are based on close friendship and shared interests , not just strong feelings . |
| 2 | The final and longest chapter describes the potential applications of LB films and stresses those areas in which the author feels the greatest opportunities exist for industrial and commercial exploitation . |
| 3 | In the first and longest phase , those who directed the process had no sense of the final outcome . |
| 4 | They were all very good , but perhaps it was because all the Packs excepting the 3rd Shortfields had chosen characters from well-known books or plays or nursery-rhymes that when the 3rd Shortfields appeared in the quaint uniforms of Brownies of earlier days they won the loudest and longest applause of all . |
| 5 | All that celebratory burning of good kindling at the onset of the darkest and longest months of the year must assuage some deep primitive need . |
| 6 | In both cases , the difference between shortest and longest repayment period involved a change from about 10 per cent to 50 per cent APR . |
| 7 | Should the marked chromosome constitute the inactive X , however , it is reasonably easy to observe as the darkest and longest chromosome in the cell . |
| 8 | At the same time , the formalism is broken up ( particularly in the last and longest sentence ) by elements which will ease transition to a lighter tone of comedy : for example , the bantering irony signalled by the parenthesis of " though ( of course ) an undeniably fine infant " ( directed against a general human frailty , partiality of parents for their offspring , rather than against the more repellent form that partiality takes in Mr Dombey ) ; also , the fanciful extensions of the well-worn personifications of Time and Care , again expressed through parenthetical elaboration of the syntax . |
| 9 | In their study of Yorkshire during the 1984–5 strike , for example , Winterton and Winterton ( 1989 : see also Waddington et al. , 1990 ) found that the strike breakers were more likely to live outside the mining communities , thereby producing a geography whereby the strike was strongest ( and longest ) in the pits whose labour came mainly from local , closed communities : in Nottinghamshire , of course , the opposite occurred , with the closed communities being solid against the strike . |
| 10 | These findings , though derived from sporadic and statistically less reliable surveys , should be kept in mind when studying the newest and most widespread data basis , the World Fertility Survey ; since the WFS publications used only three categories for classifying deaths according to birth intervals ( less than 2 , 2–3 and 4 or more years ) , thereby precluding the possibility of analysing the impact of the shortest and longest intervals on child survival . |
| 11 | Make a mathematical model , in the form of a diagram , of this information and use it to determine the shortest and longest possible flight times . |
| 12 | My advice to Mr Stewart is to think carefully before entering into a career in medicine , as this is also a field which requires a lot of dedication , perseverance and long hours if one is to achieve anything worthwhile . |
| 13 | Doran 's short temper and long memory were famous in Little Tuckett . |
| 14 | My garden is all the more attractive because the gardens on either side are so rampant and untended : places where moss covers the paths , the grass is yellow and long and the stalks of sycamore seedlings have red , fungoid lumps . |
| 15 | lateness and long hours spent in the pub at lunchtime ? |
| 16 | Going back to a big house and long lawns , Jen ? said Michael Morrissey 's eyes last week . |
| 17 | Chocolates , especially European ones , were decadent and luxurious , like love-letters and long kisses : something one 's parents had before they married . |
| 18 | The Anglia services are worked by Class 86 locomotives and long rakes of Mk 2 air-conditioned stock . |
| 19 | The Condor combines Karrimor 's sophisticated and fully adjustible SA back system with a cavernous internal space , just right for long expeditions and long distance backpacking . |
| 20 | Traditional magnetometers use inductive loops and long wire lines to measure magnetic flux by induced EMF . |
| 21 | ‘ We must run it safely in the short term and long term , ’ he said , ‘ because if people are able to demonstrate that we are causing an environment problem we will be shut down . ’ |
| 22 | By mid-afternoon many people were evidently hungry , and long queues formed at a field kitchen dispensing cabbage soup and rolls . |
| 23 | Its old churches , green fields and long beaches were cherished by the inhabitants of Essex , Suffolk , Norfolk and Cambridgeshire , but not yet on the tourist agenda . |
| 24 | Britain is collaborating with France and West Germany , in a project called Trigat , to develop medium and long range anti-tank missiles . |
| 25 | Thus in the short , medium and long term , to help Poland is to help Germany . |
| 26 | He looked really fierce with his black beard and long black hair . |
| 27 | It was dark when we took up a position among thick briars and long grass . |
| 28 | Later that evening they had been sitting in a restaurant and Maggie had looked at Tom and said , her delicate face and long neck almost visibly aquiver with pleasure , |
| 29 | This SL comes with the world 's first five-speed automatic gearbox but fails to live up to its high price and long waiting list |
| 30 | Singer Rod Stewart has n't changed the women he 's been out with ; he 's just exchanged the model — they all have long blonde hair and long legs . |