Example sentences of "long as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as does increase and the organic composition of capital is not increasing rapidly , it will represent future consumption by productive workers , but will still be considered as a part of the surplus-value . |
| 2 | ‘ Very like ! ’ he said , knowing it was true , and knowing that he would not hold back so long as to let it be true . |
| 3 | Building them often took twice as long as planned , and costs were two to three times the original estimate . |
| 4 | It also criticized the manufacturers and contractors for lax planning and supervision of the project , the first aircraft having taken nearly twice as long as planned to build . |
| 5 | It had taken twice as long as planned due to the heat and it was decided that a 6.00am start was required on the second day . |
| 6 | The list of sins , venial and otherwise , was long , but not so long as to come as a surprise . |
| 7 | BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place . |
| 8 | Unemployment benefit is limited to only one year , and , unlike other national insurance benefits , such as an old-age pension , can not be drawn for as long as needed . |
| 9 | As soon as one person 's work has been built into the computer , it stays there and goes on working for as long as needed . |
| 10 | But so long as winning elections is seen as a mere matter of tweaking a market image , or of changing a brand title or logo , the whole enterprise is doomed to failure . |
| 11 | Creating a game from a film costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can take as long as making the movie . |
| 12 | You can concentrate on two things for only so long as changing positions to help the photographer and holding the adult shearwater proved . |
| 13 | Again this is a key finding , for little can be done about speeds , safety and environmental traffic management issues so long as housing areas have through traffic inflicted upon them . |
| 14 | He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following . |
| 15 | Within the permitted development rules for home extensions , this means no permission is needed , so long as adding the garage does n't result in the volume of the house being increased by more than the permitted development allowance . |
| 16 | Laura , desperately disappointed , tried to be a polite hostess for as long as required but when she finally retired found Bernard had locked the bedroom door . |
| 17 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |