Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb -s] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a clear value in reducing the amount of chemical waste which has to be got rid of — and that thinking has a long way to go . |
| 2 | Ascending its professional hierarchies takes a long time . |
| 3 | Although this technique has a long ancestry in the Old World it was unknown in the Americas until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century . |
| 4 | This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times . |
| 5 | This fish has a long , flattened body covered in large , iridescent scales that reflect the light beautifully . |
| 6 | ‘ The writer of this article lives a long way from Washington and would not know the answers to these questions . ’ |
| 7 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 8 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 9 | This distinction has a long and respectable history . |
| 10 | Large and secretive , this wrasse has a long body of up to 45 centimetres . |
| 11 | follow the pattern , but there again this stuff goes a long way |
| 12 | A little careful planning goes a long way . |
| 13 | It might be early days but this approach falls a long way short of forging a relationship with the viewer and when he turned to the big screen to ask a reporter a single question , it came across as completely contrived . |
| 14 | But the ruler who likes to be driven around in a sinister black Range Rover with dark tinted windows casts a long shadow of fear . |
| 15 | What is of particular interest is that direct investment overseas by such enterprises has become increasingly important over the post war years ( as opposed to portfolio investment , of which British capital has a long tradition ) , and that this phenomenon is especially important for the British economy . |
| 16 | However , it is necessary to emphasise that exploration of materials such as sand , clay , soil and wood for sheer delight , without the intervention of an adult , is extremely important and for some children lasts a long time . |
| 17 | This walk involves a long moorland climb in the shadow of high rocky peaks . |
| 18 | This country has a long tradition of accepting genuine political refugees , but there is no doubt that the fact that three quarters of all applications are made by people who have been living in this country for weeks , months and , in some cases , years , is tantamount to an abuse of the system . |
| 19 | This plant has a long leaf form which is found in the lowlands where the temperature is substantially high . |
| 20 | Perhaps a landscape is too remote or unsettled weather makes a long painting session impossible . |
| 21 | A long-stroke engine has a long con-rod , which acts as a longer lever on the crank . |
| 22 | The assertion that law is unsuitable or unable to deal with family and personal behaviour has a long history . |
| 23 | In Tanzania , for example , the Dodoma section of the semi-arid central region has a long history of both accelerated soil erosion and attempts at conservation . |
| 24 | As everywhere else in the world , changing these attitudes requires a long campaign of education . |
| 25 | A little amiability goes a long way , it would seem , and many of those present felt that Reebok was the unluckiest loser of the night in this category . |
| 26 | There seems to be a lot of blood , but , you know , a little blood goes a long way . |
| 27 | One or more of these processes forms a long conducting fibre or axon ( Narahashi , 1963 ) ending in a group of fine , branching fibrils ; the number of axons enables the neuron to be classified as uni- , bi- or multipolar . |
| 28 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 29 | Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves . |
| 30 | Then the leading comrade makes a long speech ( with pauses for interpretation ) full of statistics about how before liberation the commune used to only produce so many jin per mu ( jin being a measure of weight/capacity , and mu being a measure of land ) and how the commune now produces about 15 times that amount . |