Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [adv] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I 've had enough of it , ’ said Mr Fractor , writing an extra long sum that covered the length of one wall . |
| 2 | For a moment I toyed with the idea of getting back to the ship , lifting off and going a comfortingly long way away . |
| 3 | That also jeopardises the peacekeepers , does less for western credibility and runs the extra risk of lengthening an already long war , without changing the balance enough to stop it . |
| 4 | WORKERS at almost half the American plants run by General Motors ( GM ) , Ford and Chrysler are getting an unexpectedly long holiday . |
| 5 | Bentley pianos … also of Woodchester finally closed this year jending a similarly long tradition . |
| 6 | It seems that this passage led Barnett J. ( and indeed the Court of Appeal ) to conclude that the district judge should have approached the inquiry on the footing that ( i ) the burden of showing that the continuance of the prosecution would be a misuse of the process of the court rested upon the applicant , but ( ii ) this burden could prima facie be discharged by demonstrating an inexcusably long delay , unless the prosecution could in turn discharge the burden of showing that prejudice did not in fact follow from the delay . |
| 7 | Two men were taking a suspiciously long time on a roof . |
| 8 | The ICC and Zimbabwe are taking a very long gamble . ’ |
| 9 | This temperature can be considered in effect to be the limiting value T g would reach in a hypothetical experiment taking an infinitely long time . |
| 10 | This often results in delay — postponing the choice by finding an excuse or setting an unnecessarily long timescale . |
| 11 | We have then , in the mid 1980s , a situation where two communities start to talk and meet with each other following a very long silence . |