Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The foal 's legs still seemed too long for its body and it still was not sure where the four of them were going , but this did not deter it from frisking about . |
| 2 | Many corporations have top heavy , vertical organization structures and new ideas just take too long to move through the business process . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal is a very busy court which has to ration its time and manage its business carefully to avoid unacceptably long delays in the determination of appeals . |
| 4 | The team also found that long term potentiation led to the persistent elevation of cAMP in the cells , while short term potentiation was associated with only a transient elevation of cAMP . |
| 5 | It took five hours to reach Tagmout , our overnight spot , first crossing the dusty plain then wiggling up long valleys , over spurs and through gorges — the road simply gouged out of the rock and wickedly rough on the vehicle . |
| 6 | Herbivores typically have very long guts containing various kinds of fermenting bacteria , since grass is a poor-quality food and needs a lot of digesting . |
| 7 | He talked about repetition in fin-de-siecle opera , necessary because audiences then took so long to grasp a musical point ; and about Debussy 's hasty orchestration of the work after years of private piano performance . |
| 8 | In current practice , individual competition decisions thus contain very long and detailed preambles setting out the reasons for the operative part which is , by comparison , quite short . |
| 9 | Male indigo birds sport beautiful metallic blue plumage , while male whydahs sometimes possess spectacularly long tails . |
| 10 | When they acknowledge receipt of an article journals sometimes state how long authors should expect to wait before receiving a decision , although few make this information more widely available . |