Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this makes them better suited to the longer distances . ’ |
| 2 | Actually it is wrong to think that your present diet will necessarily lead to a long and productive life . |
| 3 | The press release also pronounced Christmas trading to be ‘ excellent ’ , and said that both Waterstones and Harrods were now committed to a long and successful relationship . |
| 4 | In fact at the moment we 're just about getting to the longest er night the what 's called the equ er sorry the solstice that occurs on about December the twenty second . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it is an early maturing variety well suited to the long ripening period of a northern wine region . |
| 6 | Similarly , Charlie 's incarnation as a Norse explorer among the Skroelings , ending when a man who seems to be Erik the Red took his crew and ‘ steered them for three days among floating ice , each floe crowded with strange beasts that ‘ tried to sail with us , ’ said Charlie , ‘ and we beat them back with the handles of the oars ’ surely relates to the long sea voyage , an account of which originally formed the bulk of the ‘ Death by Water ’ section . |
| 7 | After breakfast we continued working until eleven , then returned to the long hut . |
| 8 | It is closely related to a longer version extant in four manuscripts three of which assign it to him . |
| 9 | He sang an endless string of tuneful but meaningless words that were only very loosely attached to the long , narrative poem that went on inside his head . |
| 10 | From the terms in which he subsequently refers to the longest of the fragments , we can confirm that " The Greek State " represents a short-lived attempt to widen the scope of a book whose central concern with tragedy was already determined . |
| 11 | Elsewhere in his speech Gladstone specifically referred to the long runs of periodicals in the library as being of interest to him as he could not keep them in his own library . |