Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Suss collaborated at Clara Mosch from 1977 to 1982 and for a long time worked with coloured linocuts . |
| 32 | Eventually , the bloody turf wars ceased , and for a long time the authorities either winked at their illegal trade or even helped themselves to the till . |
| 33 | Nonetheless , democratic elitists emphasize that centralization of resource distribution and even policy control has developed in parallel with a continuing ( and for a long time expanding ) role for sub-national governments as agents of policy implementation . |
| 34 | My husband thought they were a failure and felt embarrassed about them , and for a long time he would n't let me see them . |
| 35 | The colour given will be a sort of red , not unlike that of mahogany ; and by afterwards oiling the chair and rubbing it well , and for a long time , with woollen cloths , the veins and shading of elm will be rendered conspicuous . |
| 36 | But she had been forbidden by her mother to have anything to do with her Pascoe cousins , and she was sure Tristram was under the same veto as far as she was concerned ; and for a long time — years — she had never even spoken a word to him . |
| 37 | But Joseph had always been very devoted to any local news and for a long time the talk of the town had been the Cockermouth man — Fletcher Christian 's — Mutiny . |
| 38 | He looked at the photo , and then he looked at Carl carefully and for a long time . |
| 39 | It was as easy as anything , and for a long time I , I felt well at least I can get in that way and then I thought oh maybe I should , you know doing , doing anything about it , but now I always go out of the other door |
| 40 | Before 18 months , a child wo n't recognise herself in the mirror and for a long time will describe herself in terms of attributes ( like smallness ) and her possessions . |
| 41 | German scholarship had done little to add to , and nothing to disrupt , the traditional European pattern of " philology " , as the study of classical antiquity was widely called ( and for a long time continued to be called ) . |
| 42 | Finally her arms went gently round his waist , and for a long time they sat there , while he listened to the sounds of the party , and felt — against his side , and within the perimeter his arm made around her — the gentle ebb and flow of her breath , Please , please , do n't come now , Mrs Hunter . |
| 43 | It happened almost overnight and for a long time nobody even heard of him . ’ |
| 44 | There is of course no need to be unduly alarmed at these discrepancies ; we should reflect that any normal language presents numerous instances where certain recalcitrant items refuse to fit into a generally acceptable pattern ( e.g. for no very obvious reason the " expected " adverbs difficultly and longly are not accepted in English and have to be replaced by the phrases with difficulty and for a long time . ) |
| 45 | But , before he was able to put a name to it , something hit him on the back of the head , and for a long time he knew no more . |
| 46 | Afterwards she clung to him , the tears wet on her cheeks , and for a long time they lay together in silence as the light of the October evening faded around them . |
| 47 | Luce buried her face against Michele 's neck and for a long time they sat without moving or speaking . |
| 48 | I hid it from everyone , ’ he said , when her brows rose in surprise , ‘ and for a long time I hid it from myself . |
| 49 | One might call this ‘ applied phonology ’ ; however , the phonological analysis of different languages raises a great number of difficult and interesting theoretical problems , and for a long time the study of phonology ‘ for its own sake ’ has been regarded as an important area of theoretical linguistics . |
| 50 | Yes , I think that the crucial thing that 's emerging , especially from the area of artificial intelligence , is that we 're beginning to understand that what the name of the game is getting people to express their intentions , and for a long time we 've been , as it were , stuck in languages that do n't really help you to do that and we 're really beginning to understand now that erm what people are doing when they program indeed , I mean as it were the ace programmers , are expressing their intention for whatever 's to be done in the task the computer 's to perform clearly . |
| 51 | She was worried by the way he roamed about touching everything , and during a long chat to Mrs Allinson expressed her concern that he could not get on with anything , and could not write or read . |
| 52 | Throughout her marriage , and during a long period as a single parent , she was a journalist , editing magazines such as Honey , Over 21 , and Working Woman , as well as being Woman 's Page Editor on the Sunday Times and The Independent . |
| 53 | She spotted us at the same time and after a long look , took her offspring and ambled away along the side of the mountain . |
| 54 | Hawks could n't afford to repair the aircraft and after a long rest in the hangar , it was bought by Ed Connerton who rebuilt it as a two-seat military aircraft registered NX2491 . |
| 55 | And after a long day 's walking , what better way to end it than with a glass of cider in one of St Ives ' treasures — The Three Ferrets . |
| 56 | At 7 o'clock the office bearers , a number of the brethren and their lady friends sat down to a sumptuous repast in a granary tastefully decorated with evergreen and flags and after a long toast list the tables were removed for dancing . |
| 57 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 58 | For the first time in British history , and after a long struggle , Conscription had become law ; but in Dublin the ‘ Easter Rising ’ had set the spark to Ireland , and in Mesopotamia General Townshend had surrendered to the Turks at Kut . |
| 59 | Under mounting local and international pressure , and after a long campaign , the Japanese Government finally passed a new Mental Health Act in 1987 . |
| 60 | One day he had asked his parents if the Wrath eagles were the greatest of the golden eagles , and after a long pause his mother said , ‘ No eagle is greater than another , all of us are the same wherever we come from and whatever kind we are . |