Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were more active than any predecessor against some particular organism , and some had special merits in use , such as working when given by mouth , or acting for a longer period than usual . |
| 2 | Nathaniel Sherman stumbled slightly at the entrance of his hut , and his wife heard him cursing and fumbling for a long time with the flap fastenings . |
| 3 | She had n't expected to get much sleep , but exhaustion finally overcame her and she lapsed into a fitful , restless doze , tossing and turning through the long night as dreams haunted her mind . |
| 4 | Touched by beneficial magics and feeding on the long grasses of the steppe , the steeds of Ellyrion are the swiftest and most noble of four-legged beasts . |
| 5 | Caterers also face other difficulties , such as keeping food hot and coping with the long travelling distances between the kitchens and wards . |
| 6 | An essential element in job creation is the provision of training for school leavers and retraining for the long term unemployed . |
| 7 | The normal daily routine involved getting up at around 6am and stopping for a long lunch at midday in order to avoid the most intense heat . |
| 8 | Well , she 'd simply have to find the strength within herself to resist that power , she decided grimly , rising to her feet and reaching for the long black dress she 'd laid out earlier to change into . |
| 9 | And his own man in the Washington Field Office , the CI-3 team , and putting in the longest hours and never a word of complaint , and that had won him the job in the Attaché 's office in Rome . |
| 10 | Since 1914 millions of Russians had been on the move — four to five million away from the advancing armies of the Central Powers ; at least twelve million fleeing into exile during and after the Revolution ; the largest land army in the world manoeuvring , dying , and deserting from the longest front-line in history — to give the major examples alone , with very approximate numbers . |
| 11 | Meanwhile people went in and out of the pharmacy but only two women of conceivably Agnes 's age : one very tall and striding in a long ethnic-of-somewhere skirt the other short and waddling , flat-heeled long blonde hair dark jacket and beret and a huge shoulder bag . |
| 12 | The tour was disappointing but looking to the longer term future of Scottish rugby it was certainly not a disaster . |
| 13 | We could not detect a significant immunological difference between drug users who seroconverted with bacterial pneumonia and those without , but owing to the long sampling interval the lowest CD4 counts were not necessarily measured . |