Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and et all ( 362 , 355 & 359 ; 1993 showed that these organs ( among others ) are sites at which the virus multiplies during the often long latency period in AIDS , but more will have to be known of this process before it can be the basis of a routine assay . |
| 2 | There are limitations to the use of scintigraphy in children with pseudo-obstruction , such as the very long transit time for orally ingested capsules to reach the colon , the impossibility of peroral cannulation of the right colon , and the poor patient cooperation with lying quietly under a gamma camera . |
| 3 | Most importantly , the folded state of the subunit is stabilized by extensive van der Waals interactions and hydrogen bonds between the unusually long helices of R2 . |
| 4 | This is elicited , after the very long delay of 400 msec , by the visual presentation of a semantically improbable word ( for example , the word ‘ socks ’ in ‘ He spread the warm bread with socks ’ ) . |
| 5 | After a particularly long photo-session , the photographer wanted one more shot and her patience gave out : ‘ Hurry up , ’ she said firmly , ‘ I 'm busy . ’ ’ |
| 6 | The extended families are split up as the men move first , to be followed only after a fairly long interval by wives and children and often never by other relatives . |
| 7 | ‘ No , ’ she said at last , after a very long pause . |
| 8 | And this pays in the results you get only after a very long time . |
| 9 | If such businesses are independent and directly answerable to the stock market , any bad investment decisions would only become apparent after a very long time . |
| 10 | But decline does not mean " cessation " , immediately or even after a very long time ; although erection will occur gradually less often , ejaculation will take longer to achieve with the passing years and the frequency of sexual intercourse tends slowly to decrease , there need not be any enormous difference sexually between a man of 20 and one of 70 . |
| 11 | Solid drinking ‘ Two years ago I had a one-day relapse after a very long time of being sober . |
| 12 | It 's very satisfying after a very long investigation . |
| 13 | After an immensely long period of feeble luminosity , the star loses the last of its light and heat , and becomes a cold , dead Black Dwarf . |
| 14 | One afternoon after an especially long session she was forced to catch a much later bus home than usual . |
| 15 | A quarter of convicts are over 40 ( Table 2.1 ) , mainly because of the exceptionally long periods that ‘ lifers ’ spend in gaol : the minimum period to be served is fourteen years . |
| 16 | Our attempts at determining both the electric field strength and the potential have started with considering the effect of a single point charge and have been followed by an integration for obtaining the total effect of the infinitely long line charge . |
| 17 | Now I might have extra players so that there can be some moments of rest for the players in one of the very long symphonies ; but in Bruckner 's day it was often a matter of re-scoring a passage because you knew that the third horn was not a very good player and that is all you had . |
| 18 | Tito , at the age of 87 , was forced to stay alive for a few extra weeks by the vigorous application of every last trick of the medical trade , including the use of a kidney machine , long after it was apparent that he had reached the end of a pretty long road . |
| 19 | ‘ I shall ask your indulgence of a rather long exposition , Mr Chairman . |
| 20 | She had , to hand , the lavatory brush , three toilet rolls and the hardback edition of a very long novel by a Peruvian author with an unpronounceable name . |
| 21 | On the whole , they appear as keen at the end of a very long day as at the beginning . |
| 22 | This may be the middle of the afternoon to you , to me it 's evening — and the end of a very long day . ’ |
| 23 | Certain ancient stains along the approach corridor — which resembled the rib cage of a very long whale — had suggested that those ribs could clash shut at any sign of unwelcome visitors , imprisoning or crushing intruders . |
| 24 | Only at the end of a very long career did he occasionally depart from the highest standards of restrained good taste . |
| 25 | The organ here is a fine instrument , well played by Bernard Gavoty , and this account takes its place at or near the top of a very long list . |
| 26 | For either Concerto , this new disc deserves a place close to the top of a very long list . |
| 27 | It 's like being a very little fish on the end of a very long line . ’ |
| 28 | Statements by the West German Bundesbank indicate that it views monetary union as a state which comes only at the end of a very long process of economic convergence . |
| 29 | So here we are today , almost at the end of a very long process , having experienced a wide ranging debate about the future of Greater York and numerous consultation exercises . |
| 30 | It is the end of a very long era . |