Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 2 | The message from brokers is apply for shares , but do not look to hold them for the long term . |
| 3 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |
| 4 | I know we 're all very upset by what 's happened here , but damaging your career now wo n't help you in the long run . ’ |
| 5 | Again , this is information which is useful to you over the long term . |
| 6 | Again , this is information which is useful to you over the long term . |
| 7 | She ignored the amazed looks that followed them up the long hill out of town , glad to reach home long before the other two . |
| 8 | I also knew that experience in working with other birds would be useful to me in the long term . |
| 9 | ‘ If they continually try to buck the system , the system will destroy them in the long run . |
| 10 | A report has recommended that logging in the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest region of the USA be cut by more than half as a means of sustaining them in the long term and protecting their wildlife [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 11 | He remembered a homespun breast rough under his sleepy cheek , and an arm that cradled him , and the steady rocking of the horse under them on the long ride into the fringes of Wales that day ; and suddenly at parting the terrible knowledge in him that , if he let go of Master Harry now , he would never get him back again . |
| 12 | It has been known for a tough roadman-sprinter to control the race in these big hills , not to lose much time on the Ballon , then rejoin the leading group , dominate them on the long downhill run into Mulhouse and win the stage . |
| 13 | My father looked after me on the long journey home , and sat with me for every minute . |
| 14 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 15 | ‘ We do n't want to rush Mick because it 's a long season and we need him for the long haul . |
| 16 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 17 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 18 | When a few minutes later , amid the oohs and aahs from the three women , she stood and looked at the person staring back at her from the long mirror , she could n't believe it was herself . |
| 19 | And I suppose we might have lost her in the long run , but not just yet . ’ |
| 20 | For she was old when Tabitha Jute first set eyes upon her , when she dragged the tarpaulins from her in the long grass of that neglected vineyard . |
| 21 | She pulled him down beside her in the long grass , and smiled shyly at him as she undressed . |
| 22 | Maeve would be seeing to the barns , ensuring stock was slaughtered , the meat dried , salted and hung high in the kitchen to smoke , preserving it for the long winter months . |
| 23 | Sticking with it for the long haul , typically 5–7 years . |
| 24 | A company is treated as an associated undertaking when the group holds a substantial interest in it for the long term , and exercises a significant influence over its operating and financial policy decisions . |
| 25 | Institutionally it was shaken almost to pieces , and certainly out of the torpor that had descended upon it in the long aftermath of the Counter Reformation and the seventeenth-century wars of religion , by the reverberations of the Revolution with their deeply anti-religious and anti-traditional note . |
| 26 | It may be expensive , but is worth it in the long run . |
| 27 | It 's expensive but worth it in the long run . |
| 28 | But you 'd regret it in the long run , I think , would n't you ? |
| 29 | Everybody 's got ta do it in the long run . |
| 30 | Then both the earners and the users of foreign exchange will know its real opportunity cost , and they will adjust their behaviour so as to economize on foreign exchange in the short term and to earn more of it in the long term . |