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 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Male indigo birds sport beautiful metallic blue plumage , while male whydahs sometimes possess spectacularly long tails .
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