Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such flows approach asymptotically to the self-preserving form , although often very slowly ; for reasons to be seen in Section 21.4 , turbulent flows have a long ‘ memory ’ of upstream conditions . |
| 2 | Ascending its professional hierarchies takes a long time . |
| 3 | For example , many Northern English accents have a long sound as the realisation of the phoneme symbolised in RP ( which is a simple phonetic difference ) ; but in some Northern accents there is an diphthong phoneme and a contrasting long vowel phoneme that could be symbolised . |
| 4 | Just as the Biesbosch on the Rhine delta was a centre for the Dutch underground opposition to Hitler , so the English wetlands have a long history as centres of resistance . |
| 5 | While some customers took a long time to make decisions , other very complicated projects took longer than anticipated to organise . |
| 6 | But some memories take a long time to go … especially when they 're being preserved by Historical enthusiasts . |
| 7 | Marine sponges have a long fossil record from the Cambrian onwards , and at many localities they are abundant enough to be important rock formers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The remote rural areas have a long history of continuing depopulation : there are problems of farm structure and current argument about land use in general raises important issues of concern for the future . |
| 11 | It took him six hours to make a long , thin rope , but he had lost all sense of time . |
| 12 | Such expectations seem a long , long way from what Kael regards as cinema 's golden era , the emergence in the late Sixties/early Seventies of stellar talents like Scorsese , Coppola , Altman and Bertolucci . |
| 13 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 14 | Sadly , we agreed , such prospects lie a long way off . |
| 15 | A boom was now built across the River Foyle which connected it , via Lough Foyle , with the open sea , and the 30,000 citizens began a long ordeal by privation and disease , in which many thousands died , while enemy bombs plunged down upon the town . |
| 16 | As you now from your own experience , such events take a long time to plan , and the hope is that it will all come together on the day ! |
| 17 | Reversed from previous years , the last 10 miles included a long climb to begin with and continued on higher ground , which was exposed to both direct sun and prevailing wind . |
| 18 | As everywhere else in the world , changing these attitudes requires a long campaign of education . |
| 19 | Hardly had her damson-dripping fingers scooped a long white furrow from her thigh to her breast before the blackness would swirl back over it . |
| 20 | These ideas have a long history going back to sources such as Aristotle , Archimedes , Galen , and Boethius . |
| 21 | After all , these things happened a long time ago . |
| 22 | Humankind and human structures seemed a long way away . |
| 23 | and their Parliamentary advisors took a long hard look at the powers which they held and decided that the 1902 Act as it stood , could not make a viable tramway system , even when grafted onto the existing Corporation system . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 26 | Plantations outyield by almost 10 times managed ‘ natural ’ forest and these pines have a long fibre suitable for pulp , but hardwoods , notably Eucalyptus spp. yield higher total amounts of dry matter , and the most productive may yield up to twice that of the best pines . |
| 27 | But human beings discovered a long time ago that if the birds were taken away from their homes , they had an uncanny ability to return even across miles of territory that was totally unknown to them . |
| 28 | These facts go a long way towards explaining why the bream is not generally recognised as a hard-fighting fish . |
| 29 | Hard disks last a long time but they do n't last for ever . |
| 30 | The research findings indicate that many authorities have a long way to go before their procedures come close to what one might reasonably describe as a partnership with parents . |