Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] for [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The challenge , a 5km run , a 30km cycle ride and then back on 2 legs for the long run home . |
| 2 | The lads were ‘ bang up for it — Talking Heads has been one of our favourite bands for a long time ’ , and another odd musical alliance was struck up , adding to a curious list of collaborations including the Velvet Underground 's John Cale ( who produced ‘ Squirrel And G-Man ’ ) and Donovan ( who supported them on tour ) . |
| 3 | British universities for a long time were relatively much more interested in the anthropological investigation of so-called ‘ primitive ’ societies in the more remote areas of the world , and British sociology constituted a relatively minor discipline , centred mainly on the London School of Economics . |
| 4 | The profits have been in public relations for a long time but too often those in charge have refused to invest some measure of it in capital equipment that would improve client services and the daily life of their workers . |
| 5 | Whilst it is possible that they will remain reliable instruments for a long time to come , it is in conditions like these that Titoism spawns and prospers . |
| 6 | Certainly schools will not be handling such retrieval techniques in the present economic circumstances for a long time yet ; though a service to teachers and educational researchers is offered in the United States ( and is available here in some libraries ) by the ERIC system , which provides micro-copies of research papers together with a tolerably thorough indexing system which can be computerized for quick search . |
| 7 | Nevertheless physicists have known about these effects for a long time ; indeed , measurements of splitting using radio frequency techniques ( with correspondingly low-energy photons ) provided the first direct evidence of non-spherical nuclei . |
| 8 | ‘ They will also prevent me from selling these pieces for a long time to come ’ , he said . |
| 9 | If all had gone well the husband would have earned very large sums for a long period so that he could have maintained them at least at their standard of living at the time of his death , and made other provisions for the future . |
| 10 | The unit split up into three convoys for the long march to Kufra . |
| 11 | And that 's rather a pity because we 've been doing these holidays for a long time now , and I think , those people have enjoyed themselves ? |
| 12 | A former miner , Joe was presented with a cheque together with good wishes for a long and happy retirement . |
| 13 | He fondled her between her long legs for a long time , and she remained still for him . |
| 14 | Take the most effective actions for the long term [ Sammon ( 1984a ) , p 70 ] |
| 15 | Surgeons , however , have used metallic implants such as clips and automatic sutures for a long time without any such complication reported . |
| 16 | THE EXPLOSION at Staples Corner — one of Britain 's busiest road junctions — will cause major delays for a long time , AA Roadwatch said yesterday . |
| 17 | I was busy trying to set a grammar school on a new course , meeting the heads of the other secondary schools for a long and sticky evening in the north Oxfordshire village of Adderbury , and experiencing some of the excitements and discomforts involved in shuffling and reorganization : it was the year in which C. P. Snow published his Corridors of Power . |
| 18 | Pleasant to browse but unwise to buy as I could do without the extra weight of heavy tomes for the long haul after the town up past Hay Bluff to the Gospel Pass — a climb to more than 1,750 ft . |
| 19 | Dr Sasaki , who believed that the enemy had hit only the building he was in , got bandages and began to bind the wounds of those inside the hospital ; while outside , all over Hiroshima , maimed and dying citizens turned their unsteady steps toward the Red Cross Hospital to begin an invasion that was to make Dr Sasaki forget his own private nightmares for a long , long time … . |
| 20 | There are peel-off labels for the long holiday dates , something with which you can amuse yourself on the next bank holiday . |
| 21 | The festival is also screening POISON , one of the most controversial American films for a long time , which has caused storms of protest in the States and will be a film that has everyone talking . |
| 22 | The Teleuts , however , had been sovereign in their own domains for a long period before the Russians arrived on the scene . |
| 23 | Do n't ask a babysitter to look after several children for a long time — for example , a whole day . |
| 24 | And I knew that I 'd be seeing it in my more dejected moments for a long time to come . |
| 25 | The Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh also has had a long involvement with the cultivation and development of plants with medicinal properties and we have our own Scottish traditions of herbal cures for a long list of ailments . |
| 26 | There were other reasons for the long use of the sickle . |
| 27 | Vadinamia has its own ultra-tight security that has been frustrating spies for a long time . |
| 28 | The proposals Department of the Environment are actually for sixty- six weeks , but including existing statutory requirements , which can be as much as thirty weeks for the long serving employee . |
| 29 | Soviet capabilities for the long range projection of power in the Third World were comparatively ineffectual . |
| 30 | Hundreds and hundredal arrangements persisted in most areas for a long time , eventually emerging as the administrative units of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ( until 1974 ) . |