Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September 1861 Valuev wrote a long paper on the progress of emancipation which concluded by acknowledging that " Sometimes the need arises to legitimize things which have not been and could not have been envisaged by a law " . |
| 2 | In 1971 Hick published a longer account of his own ideas in Arguments for the Existence of God . |
| 3 | But 41 year old Gould had a long history of crime . |
| 4 | The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death . |
| 5 | He believed that it was possible to " foresee this war of positions between the two Spains lasting a long time " , unless there occurred " the intervention of internal political factors ( revolution in one of the two Spains ) or external political factors ( mediation or a more active form of intervention by the Powers ) " . |