Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ Remember the peasant dance where they came out in the long , hooped skirts and you ca n't see their feet ? |
| 2 | Despite the myths which surround the Act , it turned out in the long term to be quite efficient and reasonably humane , but the threat of transition sparked off another series of troubles in Sussex , the last concerted fling of desperation . |
| 3 | It was thus the internal policies of the United States that determined to a great extent who among the indebted nations won and who lost out in the long debt crisis of the 1980s ( Wellons , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | Behind the facade , behind the glittering ceremony and the IAAF delegates ’ hotels which were far superior to those for the athletes , there was a lot of wrong-doing , not least the cheating that went on in the long jump where they tried to wangle a bronze medal for Evangelisti , the Italian , by inaccurate measuring . |
| 5 | Whether that would have been , at that time , for the benefit of the mass of the Chinese people we 're talking about erm I do n't think I , I rather think that the er turn that Mao took probably in the long run , in the long term , was to the benefit of the mass of people erm the peasantry , the workers in China because I think the alternative would have been erm international exploitation . |
| 6 | I lay back in the long chair . |
| 7 | I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness . |