Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , even though an investment may produce income only in the longer term , if it is financially worthwhile it will have an immediate positive effect on share price , assuming an efficient stock market . |
| 2 | I liked the way the usherette threaded the torn half-tickets on to a long string so they made a branch of monkey-puzzle tree . |
| 3 | Like rearlights away up the long road |
| 4 | Depending on the piece of mud , you might have to take one club more with a long fairway shot , and give the shot a little extra force in the short game . |
| 5 | She set all the animals out in a long line , headed by the lions ; a circus parade carved from wood and delicately coloured . |
| 6 | He groaned , and shifted a little , tantalising her with the answering flicker of his tongue over the heavy swell of her breast , before he took her mouth again in a long and hungry kiss . |
| 7 | In order to boost short-term accounting profits companies may be tempted to cut expenditure on items such as training , research and development , and investment in productive capacity , all of which are essential to a healthy economy , on the basis that they will show a positive return only in the longer term . |
| 8 | He hired a car and took the boy down for a long weekend at the St. Mellion Golf and Country Club . |
| 9 | He had sought and received asylum in the Senegalese embassy in Conakry only a month after his return home from a long period of exile [ see p. 38181 ] . |
| 10 | She stopped a few feet away , so that she was hidden by the curtains , and fixed her gaze unblinkingly on the long black Mercedes that was heading sedately up the driveway . |
| 11 | Most accountants would be only too happy to go home and put their feet up after a long day at the office . |
| 12 | But I mean these erm do it yourself places have been open for , well defied the law now for a long long time have n't they ? |
| 13 | Lucy was also aware that Doreen 's previous anger appeared to have vanished as she carried refilled plates back to the long table , where she chatted and laughed with the men and the two guides . |
| 14 | The atmosphere was not exactly lively but I continued to have lunch there for a long time because she was extremely kind and the food was good . |
| 15 | She moved towards a seat and regarded the girl steadily for a long moment . |
| 16 | Never wipe Rosie and Jim off for a long time . |
| 17 | The first thing to do is to re-read the case thoroughly until you are confident that you have assimilated all the facts ( this is n't too difficult with a short case like this one , but is a bit harder with the longer ones ) . |
| 18 | In 1990 they were halted 90 miles from the Pole by wide stretches of open water.Having already travelled more than 500 miles from their starting point in Siberia , they set a record anyway for the longest unsupported polar journey.Then Sir Ranulph abandoned the polar cold for the desert heat , to find Ubar , before again teaming up with Dr Stroud for this winter 's headline-making trek to the South Pole , breaking their own record for the longest unsupported polar journey ever made.They returned in February and Sir Ranulph still can not tolerate running shoes on his frost-bitten feet , to train for his next expedition — ‘ another hot one . ’ |
| 19 | or touching it and that pad should be big enough to cover the wound , so you should something , overlaps , alright , and then if you find , if you unwrap the roll a little bit further , you do n't want to unroll it completely , your see that if while you 're using it in practice you need to roll it up again backwards towards the back of the bandage like so , we 'll roll it up again , backwards and when you get to the bandage you just fold the bandage up around the long end and wind the short end round it firmly and there it 's ready for use again in practice , you would n't of course do that for real would you ? |
| 20 | Steps to the left lead up to a long stretch of path which continues parallel to the road . |
| 21 | The Duttons had come a hundred years before to the long straggling village of Sherborne in the archaically beautiful Borne Valley , where Thomas Dutton had built the original house of Sherborne Park in 1551 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Whatever war was being fought below them was taking place either at the long range of bombardment or the short range of a brawl . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , no — only three messages apart from a long one that concerns you , ’ she said with a hint of ill-concealed jubilation . |
| 25 | We may not see this place again for a long time . ’ |
| 26 | Before he 'd even put the head down after a long flight to Glasgow , Lindi was expressing his confidence about Monday 's outcome . |
| 27 | But it is an agreement which is " restrictive of trade " in this sense , that it requires a man to give his services and wares to one person only for a long term of years to the exclusion of all others . |
| 28 | James Menzies and the McLaggans , riding on horses , led the rest away on the long climb of the hill to Dunskiag , a gaunt treeless place where the owner lived without a woman and three great staghounds with long coarse hair slavered to get at them , wrenching their chains . |
| 29 | Similarly , we can say that the purchase of a new machine by a firm is investment — the machine itself will not yield utility to anyone in the current period but will produce ( or help to produce ) consumer goods probably for a long time into the future . |
| 30 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |