Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he gave a frightened start , for he had nearly fallen asleep and the ground below seemed a long distance away . |
| 2 | Deborah Coleman was one of the highest-flying women in Silicon Valley with the title chief financial officer until she suddenly took a long sabbatical a couple of years ago : she did return to Apple Computer Inc and became vice-president for information systems , but quit again suddenly last week ; she has now resurfaced at Tektronix Inc as vice-president for materials operations , which is a new post . |
| 3 | The proteins have little sequence identity and obviously diverged a long time ago . |
| 4 | With our sister company , Wood Group Engineering Contractors , we successfully secured a long term contract from BP to provide integrated engineering services for the Miller , Magnus and Thistle platforms . |
| 5 | I just got a long continuance tone . |
| 6 | Rummaging around on the bench , she finally found a long chisel which , she decided , would have to do . |
| 7 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
| 8 | However , the seeds had been sown in my mind — they just took a long time to grow ! |
| 9 | The town and its surrounding rural communities already had a long tradition of Dissent , but just over 20 miles to the east the situation in Doncaster was very different . |
| 10 | By the end of that first trip , our goal still seemed a long way off . |
| 11 | But Samantha 's freedom still seemed a long way off . |
| 12 | And it annoyed her intensely , not least of all because she still felt a long way from figuring him out ! |
| 13 | The top still looked a long way away . |
| 14 | This was the worst part as by now everyone was tired , hungry , needed a long hot bath and still had a long drive home ; however spirits were cheerful and by the 29th May we were ready to do it all again . |
| 15 | Liz 's education was to take more than three years : she had already decided to specialize in psychiatry , and knew she still had a long journey ahead of her . |
| 16 | She still had a long way to go and championship victories in Stuttgart , Rome , Seoul and Split followed , plus city marathons in Rotterdam , Chicago , Boston , Osaka and then London last year . |
| 17 | True , she probably still had a long way to go . |
| 18 | The University of Utah team made it clear that they still had a long way to go and would like another year to eighteen months to continue their research before announcing it . |
| 19 | In 1926 , on any economic criterion , they still had a long way to go , when , pacified by the placebos of the previous year , they claimed a moral victory , and vanished into the archives of oblivion . |
| 20 | From their point of view they still had a long way to go in rescuing their past . |
| 21 | Without this slow agricultural revolution , which still had a long way to go in many European countries in 1880 , food production would not have been able to keep up with population growth . |
| 22 | The mounted soldier still had a long way to go and his influence was very considerable in the whole period covered by this book . |
| 23 | Travellers today said the Charter was a step forward , but BR still had a long way to go . |
| 24 | ‘ Yesterday I also received a long letter from Steve Pyle . |
| 25 | Everyman , who also undertook a long journey . |
| 26 | However , he also went a long way towards showing that this apparent conflict could be reconciled by isolating ways in which the two ideals were similar . |
| 27 | The Times also carried a long interview with Jacob Manor . |
| 28 | Bulgaria also had a long history of Byzantine building of churches and monasteries but remains of original work are not numerous or of high quality . |
| 29 | From talking to them on the way home and talking to Ted Heath 's G P , who we also had a long discussion with , without doubt there are other people there who obviously simply refuse to let come home , who are just as serious and , from the sound of it , one or two perhaps even more serious than the ones we did bring home . |
| 30 | One Frenchman had taken his carbine from his holster and now tried a long shot at Sharpe , but the bullet fluttered harmlessly overhead . |