Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [prep] a long " in BNC.

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1 When a Vet first takes up running — or resumes after a long lay-off — he or she can count on one thing : several years of improvement .
2 When back pain and arthritis are the problems it can help to take short rests or breaks from a long stint in one position — say sitting at a desk or standing at an ironing-table .
3 A dapper stranger ( John Berger ) hoves into view and launches into a long , rather tedious yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance .
4 But the connection of transgressive desire with forgetfulness and oblivion is important and follows in a long tradition : religious , mystical , or romantic or some combination of all these .
5 The land was originally a corn field and runs in a long narrow strip , still bordered by fields .
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