Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I mean think about it as long term planning , and certainly for those under er sixty the long term becomes extremely long term because er you know you 're looking at perhaps a third of your life er which is er still to be accounted for . |
| 2 | Since the enumeration of all subjects generates excessively long schedules , in practice the listing of subjects must be selective ( even if relatively long schedules are acceptable ) . |
| 3 | Relatively speaking , says Bakker , dinosaurs had quite long shanks , but not as long as modern-day runners . |
| 4 | Grandson Richard had quite long hair , which also helped when it was time to climb up on to the shoulder . |
| 5 | Supercoiling also stimulates the formation of open complexes at several promoters in which these complexes have relatively long half-lives ( 24 , 25 ) . |
| 6 | These radioactive elements have very long half-lives , so the flux of radiation is effectively constant for the archaeological periods of interest in TL dating . |
| 7 | For some goods it may be appropriate to permit cancellation at no charge provided sufficiently long notice is given . |
| 8 | There was therefore an understandable reluctance to undertake regularly long voyages to windward in rough weather . |
| 9 | Males give loud long calls which seem to function in spacing the males , and the dispersion of the females may well be related to this . |
| 10 | bill rather stout lores dark and boldly patterned underparts ; Tawny Pipit adult has equally long tail but is much less streaked . |
| 11 | Micky Yornutta is not so sure , so he asked Brian what exactly he expects from his side and Brian , as ever , decided not to sit on the fence , but the main concern being for his side to pass the ball as opposed to kicking it , but first Brian says that long ball to John Durnin is all wrong . |
| 12 | The depressing view of the unsightly pylons marching across the valley floor , heavy traffic thundering along the Woodhead Pass road , five reservoirs and a disused railway line , is soon left behind as you negotiate the tussocky grass slops below Long Gutter Edge towards the entrance to Wildboar Clough . |
| 13 | The fore-arm alone was 2.5 metres long , but it was suggested that the creature had disproportionately long fore-limbs , possibly resembling a dinosaurian sloth . |
| 14 | Many people wanted very long rehabilitation programmes before they were prepared to move . |
| 15 | So far Mr Jackson has not endorsed Mr Brown , but he has left the impression he would accept an invitation to be on the ticket if the former governor of California beats exceedingly long odds to become the Democrats ' White House nominee . |
| 16 | Change is probably the biggest sitting with their arms crossed quite long periods involved with what is going on people who sit with their folding sometimes change of attitude how people react |
| 17 | But she put it up here , I think probably to make it easier , I mean if anyone 's had , I do n't know if anyone had children in the seventies when it was the fashion to wear very long skirts , or even as I find going up and down stairs in my nightie , you 're more than likely to fall and break a leg and the baby 's neck at the same time , if you wear a long skirt . |
| 18 | These results show that long term tamoxifen treatment does not adversely affect bone turnover in women with breast cancer . |
| 19 | A 70-page list of sea defences in the report finds that long stretches of England 's coastline defences are in ‘ poor ’ , condition because of old age . |
| 20 | Victoria had very long legs and skirts seldom finished where they should on her . |
| 21 | He admired so many qualities in Fisher : the shrewdness about people , the grasp of practical problems , the ability to work very long hours , the patience under abuse from the press , the humility which went with a cocksureness that was not arrogance . |
| 22 | For instance , Corbett , in support of the observation that Swift uses abnormally long sentences in A Modest Proposal , cites a much lower sentence length from a sample from A Tale of a Tub . |
| 23 | Women worked extremely long hours when the exigencies of the family economy demanded it . |
| 24 | Japanese papers contain extremely long fibres which make them very strong , even in the presence of water . |
| 25 | Some crops have very long straw and even with modern machines it 's a bit like hitting a brick wall . ’ |