Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Older people who have fewer than eight main meals each week , or who go for long periods of the day without food , are considered to be especially at risk . |
| 2 | If there is an overriding reason why you should use a lift then please try to ensure that you go on longer journeys rather than shorter ones , i.e. say three floors or more . |
| 3 | The small print on the contracts is often confusing and you can end up paying more than you thought for longer than you anticipated . |
| 4 | Although they struggled for long periods against the same Turkey side England beat 4-0 last month , Graham Taylor — watching from the stands — said : ‘ Of the three results possible , this was the worst one . |
| 5 | In fact , these two warts are so enlarged that they look like long swellings behind the animal 's eyes , covered with pores through which the poison seeps . |
| 6 | Arthur and I went for long walks — and that little village was the best place in the world . |
| 7 | Soon after her husband died and she went to Long Island with six of her children . |
| 8 | The only drawback is the expense if you fish for long sessions and take enough meat to feed continuously . |
| 9 | Laws swings it in flicked away Gemmell gets it back and now Pearce Black outside him and it goes in long towards Collimore . |
| 10 | When a child asks a question about something dropping from a height — does it get faster and it falls for longer and longer ? — that probably is a question that most teachers who are not trained in the physical sciences just can not answer . |
| 11 | When a child asks a question about something dropping from a height — does it get faster and it falls for longer and longer ? — that probably is a question that most teachers who are not trained in the physical sciences just can not answer . |
| 12 | Since it results in long operation code fields , full bit significance is not used for operation code assignment , except at the microprogram level discussed in 3.6 . |
| 13 | Now , when I read about Long John in Squire Trelawney 's letter , I had been afraid he might be the one-legged seaman that old Bill had talked about . |
| 14 | Oh , yes , you could , you certainly could , and as I said for long periods , parental an and offspring self interest will overlap . |
| 15 | Duck or diver , it had dived , and , though I waited for long minutes , it did not appear again . |
| 16 | More and more they were now given the title of " extraordinary " , even when they remained for long periods at the courts to which they were sent : increasingly the term , applied to either an ambassador or an envoy , became a mere title of honour . |
| 17 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 18 | Not only had I had that run in with him over the rehearsals but he was also the fussiest teacher in the school when it came to long hair . |
| 19 | She was often forced to spend months apart from her husband as he embarked on long tours . |