Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wet brakes offer long service life through oil immersion and are n't affected by external water . |
| 2 | Higher proportions of older unemployed workers experience long unemployment durations now than in the late 1970's . |
| 3 | Some languages have long words of many syllables which are difficult to pronounce at first . |
| 4 | This highlights one of the perennial difficulties of ‘ fertile ’ mules ; mules and donkeys are not always easy to distinguish , and even some horses have long ears . |
| 5 | You can see in photo one that the surfaces of these teeth have long ridges which increase the grinding power of the teeth . |
| 6 | Many fast animals have long shanks or calves , compared with thighs , like gazelles and horses . |
| 7 | Most young Asian or Asian-Mauritian girls have long hair ; very few have short hair . |
| 8 | Large spiders have long hairs , which are tuned to the wingbeats of large insects , while small spiders have short hairs . |
| 9 | The lack of any faster dissociation species from this large footprint does not necessarily mean that each of the 3 available sites have long dissociation times , but that binding to site 3 may be excluded for steric reasons as well . |
| 10 | This is because low-pitched sounds have long wavelengths which can not resolve the difference between closely spaced objects . |