Example sentences of "[adv] after [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the mother-daughter relationship is also significant in respect of whether the Lady enters your life easily , or only after a long struggle . |
| 2 | The increase had been won only after a long struggle . |
| 3 | Transmission often succeeds only after a long incubation period , which decreases substantially after serial passaging . |
| 4 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 5 | The Pilkington float process , metal skis , xerography , are success stories , but only after a long time period , much effort and many technical difficulties . |
| 6 | They got back together after a long break so he must have liked her as she was . |
| 7 | Before he 'd even put the head down after a long flight to Glasgow , Lindi was expressing his confidence about Monday 's outcome . |
| 8 | He did so after a long consultation with the Prime Minister . |
| 9 | It occurs word medially between two short vowels , between a long and short vowel , or word finally after a long vowel . |
| 10 | If the memory of the association of a given flavour with illness can be taken to be more important than the memory that the flavour has also been experienced without harmful consequences , then the latter memory would interfere after a short but not after a long retention interval . |
| 11 | These dilemmas may even present themselves shortly after a long policy discussion when both parties have agreed on the proper procedure . |
| 12 | Notts went ahead when Mike Simpson volleyed home after a long throw-in . |
| 13 | Carl had got home after a long day . |
| 14 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 15 | At the major shows , winners are often exposed to the glare of television lights , and expected to parade for the cameras as well , before journeying back home after a long day . |
| 16 | Nick Brown was cleared of drugs charges in Goa , but has only just been allowed home after a long campaign by his mother . |
| 17 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
| 18 | When Sombro comes home after a long excursion , he 's usually very thin , in poor shape and a bit battered and bruised . |
| 19 | Most accountants would be only too happy to go home and put their feet up after a long day at the office . |
| 20 | I feel like I 've just woken up after a long dream ; ’ |
| 21 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 22 | Tonight , wherever she looked she saw herself reflected and transformed , her face shining as though she had quite suddenly woken up after a long sleep , filled with lovely dreams . |
| 23 | that may mean that we meet a demoralized norwich team away on saturday — or — that they got boosted by their fine performance — ekoku was back after a long time injury for norwich . |
| 24 | ‘ Gazza has always been brilliant on the football field and it will be great to see him back after the long haul he 's had . ’ |
| 25 | The final tally was 41 , with 12 reported for possible prosecution , six cautioned , and 23 others either talked to or extremely worn out after a long chase . |
| 26 | The final tally was 41 , with 12 reported for possible prosecution , six cautioned , and 23 others either talked to or extremely worn out after a long chase . |
| 27 | It was like the sun coming out after a long time of darkness . |
| 28 | It 's like people sometimes have problems when they come out after a long stay in hospital — or the same sort of thing anyway . |
| 29 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 30 | Here the sales staff glided about with languid grace more reminiscent of Paris than New York , the house models managed to look like elegant advertisements for Varna even after a long session of standing stock still while a toile was pinned and draped and adjusted around them , and even when a rail of sample clothes had to be wheeled across the hallowed expanse of green , carefully hidden inside grey and black sample bags to make sure they were safe from the photographic eye of a fashion spy , it was managed with what Hugo referred to as ‘ panache ’ . |