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 | Similarly , a product which is marketed under a prestigious brand name may enjoy a much longer market life than basically similar products which lack a strong brand image . |
5 | To leap from this standpoint to the assumption that we have an everlasting soul is to leap a very long way — probably too far . |
6 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
7 | Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way . |
8 | He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | → 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 . |
11 | ‘ You 'll wait a very long time to do that , ’ he gritted . |
12 | Joint Planning , it seems to me , still has a very long way to go . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Direct perception by psychics of energy manifestations in the landscape has a very long history . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | It has a very long neck like a duck , and the front of the body sometimes has a faint purple tinge . |
19 | Butyl has a substantially longer life expectancy than pvc — it 's used in the construction of reservoirs — but it can still be damaged by piercing . |
20 | BR has a somewhat longer network , employs more than twice as many railway staff and carries considerably more passenger traffic than does RENFE . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | However , the interest of neurophysiologists has a considerably longer history . |
24 | And if treated correctly it has a much longer life than synthetics . |
25 | With only 32 horse power available I had expected a considerably longer ground , but we were off the ground in about 150 metres , although from then on acceleration and climb were adequate rather than startling . |
26 | Three of her rivals are well out of the handicap ; Celtic Bob will not be improving at 13 ; and Petty Bridge needs a much longer trip . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |