Example sentences of "[verb] a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Scot has a briskish pace and does n't need a particularly long run , as he proved the other week against Hampshire .
2 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 .
3 The idea prompted Leapor to write a rather long poem about the follies of ambition , entitled ‘ Mopsus , or , The Castle Builder ’ .
4 To leap from this standpoint to the assumption that we have an everlasting soul is to leap a very long way — probably too far .
5 He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat !
6 Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way .
7 He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories .
8 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 .
9 → 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 .
10 ‘ You 'll wait a very long time to do that , ’ he gritted .
11 Joint Planning , it seems to me , still has a very long way to go .
12 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 .
13 Direct perception by psychics of energy manifestations in the landscape has a very long history .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 It has a very long neck like a duck , and the front of the body sometimes has a faint purple tinge .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Microlights take a bit of getting used to ( 1,000 feet looks an awfully long way down ) , but they are marvellous viewing platforms .
25 You know , as we sit back and just wait for God to bless us we 'll wait an awful long time .
26 However , current consumption must be kept sufficiently low to provide an acceptably long battery life .
27 ‘ This is something I should 'ave done a very long time ago .
28 The tenant should therefore initially attempt to delete clause 5.2.2 , but if this is not accepted a sufficiently long date should be inserted in it .
29 And that , in 1957 , seemed a very long way off .
30 The two miles to Casterbridge seemed a very long way to the woman , who was tired and ill .
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