Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Thus , if the goal is for your dog to eat in the car rather than the kitchen , in preparation for a long journey , move its dish a few inches a day towards the car , and then into the car . |
2 | In preparation for a long stay , I had several suitcases , a packing case , a cabin trunk , my portable gramophone and records , all my medical equipment . |
3 | On top of that , if the FA see the Davis case as a precedent , they could be without their England striker for a long spell , while Wright could find his international claims weakened . |
4 | ‘ Sir , we have been seeking his permission for a long time ; he will not give it . |
5 | Their new gas plants will not be on stream for several years ; they need a secure , well-priced coal contract for a long time to come . |
6 | It is also our intention — this differs from what has been the case for a long time — that they will be fully manned units . |
7 | He had n't had a clothing parcel for a long time . |
8 | A wall that has been damp will often contain moisture for a long time after the cause has been remedied , so it is better to allow the walls to dry out naturally , although anti-damp paint could be used to allow the room to be decorated before the wall has dried out . |
9 | Old Frank Buchman , who kept on this course through a long life of battle , used to tell me . |
10 | there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while . |
11 | Indeed , as the indices stubbornly refused to improve , there seemed little prospect that interest rates would not remain at this historically high level for a long period to come . |
12 | They must know it 's been going on at domestic and international level for a long time . |
13 | Erm right the open show fifty nine ninety five for the hire of the hall , much the same as last year , it 's keeping pretty well down er , it 's , we paid fifty three eighty last year , but I think because little bit for a longer time this year . |
14 | We discuss the abortion struggle for a long time . |
15 | Been my major struggle for a long time now . |
16 | But his parents ' place in Hemlock Road was their base for a long time . |
17 | We had a stable rate base for a long time and we saw no reason to doubt that there was anything untoward in the ratings that had been made within our borough . |
18 | And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save . |
19 | A discrete block of land may have been in existence for a long time before it was first described in a written document . |
20 | The first 4 of these have been in existence for a long time . |
21 | The landlord requires security of income for a long period , and this is specially desirable where the landlord is an investing institution which pays out pensions or insurance policies , because a period of twenty-five years ' secure income facilitates the actuarial calculations necessary in order to determine the level of payments which the landlord can make . |
22 | Masked by the cold war , it has in practice fulfilled that function for a long time . |
23 | He had been standing in the kitchen for a long time . |
24 | They played rummy with Patsy in the kitchen for a long time because Mother and Father went across the road to Dr and Mrs Johnson 's house . |
25 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
26 | She 's got our number all right an' we 'll 'ave to give this place a miss for a long time after this . |
27 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
28 | He must have saved up his pocket money for a long time in order to buy one of Uncle Philip 's masks . |
29 | Then suddenly he sees Piquet go into a spin and does n't get back into the field for a long time . |
30 | The snag is , scientists do not yet know whether patients taking the drug for a long time are better off with a little testosterone , or none . |