Example sentences of "[conj] then a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thunder started as she reached the gate , a great crash and then a long roll of drums . |
| 2 | The Russian soldier was just ahead of me. from the road came the sounds of men shouting and then a long burst of machine-gun fire . |
| 3 | Later in the week , some of us went for an evening swim at a nearby beach — or rather not so nearby , as it entailed a few miles of driving and then a long walk down a deserted track . |
| 4 | Their course is so far short : the first national Green Party founded in New Zealand as the Value Party in 1972 , the next in the United Kingdom in the following year and then a long gap until Ecolo in Belgium in 1980 heralded a rush either to set up or amalgamate existing groups into parties in the early and mid-1980s . |
| 5 | Gabriel saw bullets sparkle and flash all around the F2B ; and then a longer streak from the British observer 's rearfiring gun . |