Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [is] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | London futures prices rose 15% to £670 ( $1,170 ) a tonne , but fell within hours : coffee is plentiful and a new international deal on export quotas is a long way off . |
| 2 | One does n't want to wallow in the nostalgia trap so temptingly set by TV Heaven and its bebow-tied host Frank Muir ( though they show Honor Blackman in her Avengers leather kit , it 's hard to resist ) , but Old Boy Network is a long way from The Likely Lads . |
| 3 | An aircraft accident investigation is a long , painstaking process in which the sometimes complicated sequence of events comes to light only slowly and frequently in the wrong order . |
| 4 | The history of pet names is a long one , there appearing to be evidence confirming their existence before the Conquest , but in those instances where pet names survive as surnames the appearance is that they are of post-Conquest foundation , and some are difficult to identify . |
| 5 | The probe y is a long probe ( such as a YAC ) , which spans many clones , showing that the clones need not overlap with each other . |
| 6 | The Greenwich Foot Tunnel is a long straight tube , about eight foot high , only seven in places , walls and ceiling tiled in white . |
| 7 | The optimum formation for missile troops is a long thin line from which as many archers as possible can draw a bead on the foe . |
| 8 | The solution of the problem of the Exodus numbers is a long story . |
| 9 | The North Riding is a long way from London . |
| 10 | Twenty nine year service is a long time . |
| 11 | If dining aboard a steam train is a long cherished ambition , dreams can come true aboard The North Yorkshireman . |
| 12 | As we have seen , wood depends for its defences against crack propagation partly upon Jeronimidis ' work of fracture contrivance — which ensures that the critical Griffith crack length is a long one — and also , by way of a further safety device , upon the Cook-Gordon mechanism for stopping any crack which gets past George . |
| 13 | But Pipe said : ‘ The Gold Cup is a long way away and we 'll just have to see what happens in the meantime . ’ |