Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Like rearlights away up the long road |
| 2 | The Duttons had come a hundred years before to the long straggling village of Sherborne in the archaically beautiful Borne Valley , where Thomas Dutton had built the original house of Sherborne Park in 1551 . |
| 3 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , no — only three messages apart from a long one that concerns you , ’ she said with a hint of ill-concealed jubilation . |
| 5 | Similarly , we can say that the purchase of a new machine by a firm is investment — the machine itself will not yield utility to anyone in the current period but will produce ( or help to produce ) consumer goods probably for a long time into the future . |
| 6 | It would become known as the Aladdin Sane Retirement Tour of Great Britain , comprising over 40 appearances and culminating at Hammersmith Odeon for the famous final concert of June 3 , 1973 , when David announced his ‘ retirement ’ and that he would n't perform live concerts again for a long time — not for two or three years at least . |
| 7 | Is the community so anxious that its judges not behave as pragmatists that this " noble lie " will help him serve its true interests better in the long run ? |
| 8 | ‘ Doping makes people so distrustful that if someone jumps two cms longer in a long jump , a cm higher in the pole-vault or lifts 2.5 kgs more than I do , the accusation is there . ’ |
| 9 | In this study a 400-element array was used to represent a rectangular plate in plane strain , loaded only at its four corners by forces parallel to the longer dimension of the plate . |
| 10 | They arranged to come that way again next Sunday and then turned their horses eastwards for the long ride home . |