Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real giants were the lumbering sauropods ( Diplodocus , Brachiosaurus , etc. ) , four-legged dinosaurs , with enormously long necks only matched by equally long tails . |
| 2 | Either that or you will have decided to build that extension you 've both wanted for so long to put that rattan furniture in , and when it 's finished discover that the blessed stuff does n't fit at all . |
| 3 | Ascending levels of abstraction ( i.e. phonetic , lexical , syntactic , semantic ) typically deal with temporally longer stretches of the utterance . |
| 4 | Mood in such circumstances , however , generally refers to a state such as depression typically continuing for relatively long periods of time , often hours or days . |
| 5 | Germany as a country has n't really existed for very long , has it ? |
| 6 | We did n't have to queue for food we waited five minutes to get into the car , we did n't have to queue for food or coffee , we ke , we did n't even get into very long lines too pay . |
| 7 | Ten minutes too long during a schooling session might mean a week 's set-back in a training programme , so be careful not to either work for too long or to expect too much too soon . |