Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mounted soldier still had a long way to go and his influence was very considerable in the whole period covered by this book . |
| 2 | The Currabinny Community Association then provided a long list of other sources of responsible relevant information . |
| 3 | The town and its surrounding rural communities already had a long tradition of Dissent , but just over 20 miles to the east the situation in Doncaster was very different . |
| 4 | But Samantha 's freedom still seemed a long way off . |
| 5 | The Times also carried a long interview with Jacob Manor . |
| 6 | The top still looked a long way away . |
| 7 | Suddenly he gave a frightened start , for he had nearly fallen asleep and the ground below seemed a long distance away . |
| 8 | Travellers today said the Charter was a step forward , but BR still had a long way to go . |
| 9 | Kuypers then started a long series of collaborative studies in which injuries to some of these connections in the monkey 's brain were correlated with the defects they produced in performance of movements ; the poising of an arm , for instance , to carry out an operation with the fingers could be dissociated from the ability to use the fingers skilfully . |
| 10 | Surgical techniques for an artificial penis and scrotum were still experimental and any success there seemed a long way in the future . |
| 11 | Bulgaria also had a long history of Byzantine building of churches and monasteries but remains of original work are not numerous or of high quality . |
| 12 | At Friends of the Earth , Jonathan Porritt similarly fought a long and largely successful battle to demonstrate that efficiency and negotiation with the opposition do n't have to mean sell-out . |
| 13 | And now the children also saw the long thin slimy yellow-bellied lizard-like creature twisting and turning in the glass , and they squirmed and jumped about as well , shouting , ‘ What is it ? |
| 14 | From her right ear there dangled a long silver cascade of tiny orbs . |
| 15 | By the end of that first trip , our goal still seemed a long way off . |
| 16 | Even after the Union of the Crowns there remained a long period during which old traditions and suspicions simmered uneasily , and old local enmities flared up at the slightest provocation . |
| 17 | Victims frequently took a long time to die , often very unpleasantly . |