Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robbery enough existed near London , but Southerners may have suspected , especially after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 , that there was no order or security in the North and so not worth the long , expensive journey there . |
| 2 | I think it 's all over for a long time . |
| 3 | If society 's resource could be used to make more output , even the poor might be better off in the long run . |
| 4 | Conversely , some econometricians have argued that it is more cost effective to use a ‘ drip ’ system , advertising more or less continuously over a long period at a very low weight . |
| 5 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time , ’ he told the ever-comforting Jones , ‘ and shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time and I shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose , ’ said Suvarov , paying no attention to her rudeness or the incipient hysteria in her voice , ‘ because it was so important … not just fighting it , but being part of it , doing one 's best and living more intensely over a longer time than one had before . ’ |
| 8 | But we should be further on in the long march from paternalism . |
| 9 | Once inside in the long , dimly-lit corridor she withdrew a photostat copy of the invoice from her pocket and handed it to him . |
| 10 | One does not get a sense of a strong need for support from parents to children to be reciprocated — certainly not in the short term , and possibly not in the long term either . |
| 11 | Ex-Fini Triber , Ministry Man and Revolting Cock Chris Connelly team up with the Tribe once more in a long and slow shuffling expedition that 's not necessarily a club-oriented track but is constructed from the fundamental elements of the club scene at least . |
| 12 | The original pirate radio ship Mi Amigo eventually drifted helplessly on to the Long Sand Head where she sank . |
| 13 | In the second-half the Dragons had a strong wind at their backs and almost made good use of it straight away as a long ball found McClean and his shot was pushed round by Westwood . |
| 14 | He laid it carefully out on the long table whilst waving Corbett over . |
| 15 | " I always thought that gardens , " said Clara , as they progressed slowly back along the long stretch of grass , and down the steps to the lower level , " I always thought that gardens were for growing flowers in . |
| 16 | Remember to make the shape of your mount echo that of the letter you are designing — for example , if you want to create a capital I , it will fit far better in a long , thin , rectangular mount , say 22.5 × 15cm ( 9 × 6in ) , with an aperture 5cm ( 2in ) smaller all round , than a circular frame or mount . |
| 17 | In clinical case management there is a recognition that the worker is an important resource , and an awareness that the process of assessment and reassessment is a crucial function , to be discharged by someone who knows the client really well over a long period of time . |
| 18 | Our current performance is at around the Group average , and I have no doubt not only of our ability to keep this up , but of our potential for doing even better in the longer term on any standard of assessment . |
| 19 | It seems to even out in the long run , although sometimes one has to give a wry smile when a customer dithers over one of ‘ hers ’ and one of ‘ mine ’ — then chooses ‘ hers ’ . |
| 20 | While people down south are still lying out in the sun and enjoying their holidays , up here we have to start planning well ahead for the long winter to come . |
| 21 | Once workers have installed Britain 's new cable , no one expects that the country will want to replace it — at least not for a long time . |
| 22 | I glanced at her , trying to hide my embarrassment with a swift and flippant response , but I could think of nothing to say and so I looked back at the binnacle , then up to the long moon-burnished sea ahead . |
| 23 | Lord Berner 's Triumph of Neptune was another work he conducted quite frequently over a long period , and he made two recordings of the ballet suite . |
| 24 | He had reached there late after a long tramp from Ballyjamesduff in the next county . |
| 25 | But alas , it was destroyed when I was there recently by a long line of caravans along the beach . |
| 26 | Sometimes the virus stays there quietly for a long time and the person stays well . |
| 27 | Strangely , she was no longer in the long room with the little door , but outside in a wood . |
| 28 | And I think that was the situation for a lot of people , that erm if they did n't take the the flat that was offered to them , then they would be virtually erm either still on a long waiting list or homeless . |
| 29 | Ruthless and totalitarian , of necessity , yet also in the long run cherishing the human race , although it must needs manacle the minds of men ; absolutely , as never before . |
| 30 | Gazzer rolled off the drum and lay , flat out in the long grass . |