Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prospect of another two years of study seemed a long time . |
| 2 | The prospect of another two years of study seemed a long time . |
| 3 | This kind of research has a long history in psychology and education but is relatively undeveloped in the rest of social science . |
| 4 | The perpetuation of the old sources of strife goes a long way towards explaining why party conflict continued after the Glorious Revolution , which will be the theme of the following chapter . |
| 5 | It might be a bottle of wine , but a bottle of wine goes a long way , and everybody , you stand up and you get your bottle of wine , and everybody goes , yes , feel good . |
| 6 | The golden pavilion and the peacock feathers flared and were gone in an instant , but the Hill of Heaven took a long while to cave in , and Hell burned with a black , acrid smoke billowing out of its throat . |
| 7 | It 's another piece of evidence suggesting a long term buildup towards a serious mercury crisis . |
| 8 | The use of sex crime in the media as a source of titillation has a long and inglorious past which has emerged spectacularly again in the Thatcher years . |
| 9 | Also the plaintiff 's doctor may be present if he has some active part to play , for example to explain a long and complicated medical history , his own diagnosis or to bring his own evidence up to date . |
| 10 | But ‘ catch-up ’ in science takes a long time , and the legacy of that Stalinist assault persists in the USSR 's current backwardness in genetic engineering ; it is probably also reflected in the poor agricultural productivity of the country . |
| 11 | Historical material is also being examined in order to get a long term perspective on the more recent changes . |
| 12 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 13 | The Principal responded initially by agreeing to redesignate courses as full-time , and explaining that the Academic Board had come into existence after departments had been constructed to match DipTech requirements , but had in fact gone a long way towards the Council 's view — further than the report on the June quinquennial visit had acknowledged . |
| 14 | The Sun is certainly 5000 million years old , and by stellar standards it is no more than middle-aged ; not for another 5000 million years at least will anything drastic happen to it , so that we on Earth have a long reprieve ( unless , of course , we decide to indulge in another major war , which would not destroy the world but would certainly wipe out the human race ) . |
| 15 | Donna Willoughby at Mahogany gives a long fringe a new masculine twist for '92 |