Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a Churchill decaying physically , slower in the uptake , less able to work long hours , less interested in the peacetime problems of the country , but still well enough to make his own decisions . |
| 2 | In a report presented to its 43rd annual meeting [ see above ] , the International Whaling Commission 's scientific committee warned that dolphins , porpoises and other members of the 66 species of small cetaceans are facing extinction in parts of the world , as a result of both deliberate hunting and accidental killing by fishermen , especially those using long drift nets . |
| 3 | ‘ You are not supposed to learn long words like that until you are at least eight or nine . |
| 4 | Indeed , in many cases they were precisely the group targeted to carry the burden of job losses in the 1980s , and even when the economy improved they remained the group most likely to have long spells of unemployment . |
| 5 | Moreover , it was those that were most likely to suffer long periods of unemployment and non-employment and for whom early retirement was a realistic option , i.e. those aged 60–64 , who were most likely to say that it would be very effective in dealing with unemployment : 46 per cent , compared with 34 per cent of the 55–59 age-group and 30 per cent of those under 30 . |
| 6 | Said Robert : ‘ I have 36 pigeons at the moment but they do n't all race long distance ’ . |
| 7 | Alternatively , it is very fruitful to form long chains of ( say ) forty-eight notes , using four different versions of the series . |
| 8 | But those wo n't , er if we were to take cashing those in now , it would be probably taking half of what we might get for them in the future , and from a business proposition , there is a time , when even if you have money in the bank , there are times , when it would be very advantageous to take long term interest rates , at low interest rates , and I think er er this is er perhaps the best opportunity that we have . |