Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remains the key to our understanding of the natural world and it enables us to recognise that life has a long and continuous history during which organisms , both plant and animal , have changed , generation by generation , as they colonised all parts of the world . |
| 2 | The gizzard-stone treatment meant that food took a long time to digest . |
| 3 | Their staff were generally willing to ‘ have a go ’ , and with some information and support went a long way in challenging their own attitudes and those of other children and parents . |
| 4 | In the 1370s the English , lacking good leadership and the necessary commitment of men and money to defend a long frontier ( available money might have been better spent on defence than on more popular campaigns through France ) , soon lost the ground which they had gained by treaty . |
| 5 | Cardiff was , of course , built on mud flats , and nature takes a long time to change . |
| 6 | Both orchestra and conductor have a long list of international commitments every year . |
| 7 | Free water , as in cerebrospinal fluid and urine has a long T2 of up to several seconds , whereas water bound in protein , as in muscle tissue , has a shorter T2 of some 100 ms . |
| 8 | We had a small walled garden and oblong of grass and , though Father kept a long side bed gay with red geraniums , white marguerites and blue lobelia , capable of standing up to the odd cricket ball and the games we children were able to play in the few remaining square yards behind beggared description but we had the whole Heath beyond . |
| 9 | The construction of the black man as rapist has a long racist history . |