Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shells exploded a long way away across Beirut , down by the port . |
| 2 | But for Ben Hunt ; his passion for motorbikes started a long time ago . |
| 3 | Because the drivers had a long record of bad behaviour and convictions no such expectation existed here . |
| 4 | The possibility of anything like that happening to the Germans seemed a long way off in those days . |
| 5 | Northern coal miners observed a long Christmas break and from time to time proclaimed " gaudy days " on such occasions as hearing the first cuckoo . |
| 6 | A campaign for a People 's Front would detract from their attempts to influence the Labour Party , and was felt to be inspired by Lloyd George , with whom the Communists had a long standing feud , dating back to the First World War . |
| 7 | Crafts underwent a long evolution during the Early Minoan , an incubation that prepared the way for major developments in the Middle Minoan temples and towns . |
| 8 | They were pulled into the stewards room after the race as officials took a long look at an incident early in the straight.A ban would have ruled the pair out of the Cambridgeshire and the Arc , but no action was taken . |
| 9 | Second , a large proportion of the older workers had a long period of service with the same company before being made redundant . |
| 10 | Humankind and human structures seemed a long way away . |
| 11 | After all , these things happened a long time ago . |
| 12 | While some customers took a long time to make decisions , other very complicated projects took longer than anticipated to organise . |
| 13 | Britain 's businesses took a longer Christmas break than their European competitors this year , with millions of workers taking a two week holiday . |
| 14 | At the Rutland Forest Eyre in 1269 the verderers , regarders and other jurors presented a long list of indictments of this kind . |
| 15 | Many mothers with parenting difficulties had a long history of emotional problems themselves , and seemed generally lacking in sensitivity to their children 's anxieties and needs rather than deficient in specific child management techniques . |
| 16 | The street was empty and silent and small sounds carried a long way . |
| 17 | Trebuchets had a long range , and were generally constructed on site . |
| 18 | Since ch'i occupies the place in Chinese cosmology corresponding to matter in ours , Westerners took a long time to grasp how very different it is from what we understand by matter . |
| 19 | The girls spent a long time putting their new wardrobe together . |
| 20 | The figures for applications heard by a single Lord Justice and two and three Lords Justices went a long way to explaining why , despite the facts that the rate at which appeals were begun had shown little change over the years , there had been some small increase in judge-power and that major improvements had been made in the court 's procedures , the number of appeals outstanding at the end of each year and the lead times for hearing appeals showed no real improvement . |
| 21 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 22 | The unpacking of the car and the packing and preparing of sledges took a long time . |
| 23 | These same physicians continued a long tradition of viewing menstruation as dirty and dangerous , ‘ the curse ’ inflicted upon women because of Eve 's sin . |
| 24 | Trade unions are spreading : teachers staged a long strike last year . |
| 25 | On May 18th 60 members had a long session with Howard Pastor , the White House head of congressional liaison , trying to convince him of the need for further cuts . |
| 26 | Men lived a long time on Tarvaras . |
| 27 | When Anthony Crosland declared that the ‘ party is over , he can not have realized that the Government 's cuts presaged a long period in which the Labour Party itself would be seriously threatened — partly because of its association with supposedly spendthrift urban policies . |
| 28 | She agrees with Gnome Pfeiffer ( coauthor of The Experience of Infertility , Virago ) that feminists took a long time to put infertility on the political agenda , and she suggests that this is partly due to attitudes toward motherhood . |
| 29 | Two men carried a long box from the house to one of the cars and put it inside . |
| 30 | Two men held a long argument about whether the whole thing was an establishment plot to repress gay men 's right to a freely expressed sexuality . |