Example sentences of "[adv] [art] very long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Yes I I remember we went down a very long cul-de-sac at one stage on self containment did n't we .
2 From there , the food passes to the gut — Koi do not have a stomach as such , only a very long intestine .
3 For , despite acquiring a mass of archival material stretching over a very long period of time , the Chinese never developed anything corresponding to the modern Western concept of history .
4 Fact : The authors have chosen here to quote undiscounted and out-of-date figures although they make much play of discount rates elsewhere in their article and must be aware that the decommissioning costs concerned arise over a very long period of time stretching to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond .
5 Conduction of heat occurs only very slowly through rock , and if this is the only mechanism operating uplift will occur over a very long period — something of the order of 100 Ma .
6 It 's not a very long journey it 's , it 's .
7 From a herb border to a complete herb garden is not a very long step , and once the initial interest has been started with the planting of single plants here and there in the garden , it is not long before friends are giving one new species , other varieties are discovered at garden centres , and catalogues are found to list even more .
8 This is not a very long list of " media offences " .
9 This is , however , usually a very long process ; and while it can be accelerated by shifting and deflation , it is in fact better to depopulate A below the diagonal , as far as possible , as an initial step .
10 Under the present director , Geoffrey Morgan , a soft-spoken Welshman whose main outside interest is silkworms , the list of names has moved away from the Reform Club and further out into Middle England , although it is still a very long way short of representing a cross-section of the population .
11 It was a lot bigger now and yet , and yet … still a very long way off .
12 But he was still a very long way from knowing enough to judge the value of what each of them had chosen , or would choose to tell him , and what they would , for differing reasons , see fit to suppress .
13 As a company and as individuals , we are still a very long way from the goals set at the outset of TOP in February 1992 and much remains to be done .
14 And here there is still a very long way to go .
15 Experts now solve the problem by placing them in a separate order which , they believe , branched off a very long time ago and did not lead to more advanced forms .
16 ‘ She 's been dead a very long time , has n't she ? ’
17 We 're getting not just somewhere a very long way away ,
18 It 's taken us both a very long time but I feel stronger and emotionally much more stable now .
19 Harry Curwen , his friend and cycling companion , had a story that Father wanted to ride up a very long hill on one of their excursions but fell off near the top .
20 There are many more , but you now have enough to make up a very long list of counting numbers using prime numbers and multiplication .
21 To invest such works a besieging army would have to be at least 700,000 strong , and London would be able to hold out a very long time , as the example of Paris showed ; the Prussian siege there lasted five months , and had things gone a little differently Paris might have been relieved .
22 But it is now a very long time since I was there . ’
23 The drink theme too , broadly understood , goes back a very long way .
24 What river engineers have begun to do is to rediscover their roots , and these , as we shall see , go back a very long way .
25 Rudston 's history goes back a very long way to Neolithic times and it is believed to be the oldest inhabited village in England .
26 You have to go back a very long way indeed to a more decorous age when politicians did n't use the memoir as a weapon for reopening old wounds .
27 This is very unfortunate , but it is n't a very long journey .
28 This water had been there a very long time , and smelled no better than it should .
29 It 's been there a very long time , cos that man was old who asked me , you , you know it was an old man he said that , and I was quite young , he said er , er is that cross still there in , in Chichester , I said yes , it 's still there .
30 Most of the company wives do n't see their husbands for about sixty five per cent of the year , which is actually a very long time when you 're living in these sort of conditions .
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