Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adv] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Close beside Xi is the huge eclipsing binary VV Cephei , which has the very long period of 7430 days ; the next eclipse is not due until 1996 , when the magnitude will drop from its usual 4.9 to about 5.2 . |
| 2 | Here we report an exception : PSR1718–19 , in the globular cluster NGC6342 , is in a 6.2-hour eclipsing binary system , but has the relatively long period of 1s . |
| 3 | Homemade panettone made with top quality peel and fruit has a wonderful flavour that justly rewards the rather long preparation time . |
| 4 | The Scot has a briskish pace and does n't need a particularly long run , as he proved the other week against Hampshire . |
| 5 | However desirable this might be , in a highly complex and differentiated society such as ours this undertaking would need a very long time given our present methods , resources and interests . |
| 6 | The idea prompted Leapor to write a rather long poem about the follies of ambition , entitled ‘ Mopsus , or , The Castle Builder ’ . |
| 7 | To leap from this standpoint to the assumption that we have an everlasting soul is to leap a very long way — probably too far . |
| 8 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 9 | Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way . |
| 10 | He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories . |
| 11 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 12 | → When you think of Fender 's seeming unwillingness to bring the reissues of the Indie-cred Jaguar into this country , Jim , I think we 'll probably wait a very long time before a Bass VI emanates from anywhere other than the Fender Custom Shop — a facility available to the wad-carrying fanatic . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'll wait a very long time to do that , ’ he gritted . |
| 14 | Still , Germany has no very long history as a unitary state ( less than a century ) and has had three capitals since 1918 — Weimar , Berlin and Bonn . |
| 15 | Joint Planning , it seems to me , still has a very long way to go . |
| 16 | However , the volume of research varies considerably from one polytechnic to another and , in general , it has a very long way to go before it begins to approach that generated within universities . |
| 17 | Direct perception by psychics of energy manifestations in the landscape has a very long history . |
| 18 | Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control . |
| 19 | The radioactive potassium has a very long half-life ( 1250 million years ) so that the amount lost is extremely small relative to the total amount of potassium present and can not be measured . |
| 20 | sorry , erm this budget has a very long gestation period er I 'm on version twelve I think at the last count and I hope there is n't gon na be a version thirteen . |
| 21 | It has a very long neck like a duck , and the front of the body sometimes has a faint purple tinge . |
| 22 | Britain has a fairly long winter , and I know of only a few very hardy souls who are willing to go gold prospecting during this season . |
| 23 | As West has 6 Hearts , he is likely to be short in all the other suits , and with East returning the King of Clubs , there is a suggestion that he has a fairly long suit . |
| 24 | It also has an extremely long shelf-life and loses none of its potency even when turning from its original pale straw colour to the colour of strong tea after a year or more . |
| 25 | The Kerry has an unusually long history as a specialist dairy breed and it has been suggested that it was being bred for milk production in early Irish Celtic times when , it is thought , milk formed a major part of the people 's diet , either fresh or preserved in various ways . |
| 26 | England seem to have come an awfully long way simply to discover that it 's a small world , and the Irish did not need reminding about Murphy 's Law . |
| 27 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |
| 28 | Microlights take a bit of getting used to ( 1,000 feet looks an awfully long way down ) , but they are marvellous viewing platforms . |
| 29 | You know , as we sit back and just wait for God to bless us we 'll wait an awful long time . |
| 30 | However , current consumption must be kept sufficiently low to provide an acceptably long battery life . |