Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interview need not be long but Sheila will have discovered that there are people who will listen and she is now more likely to take up any referral she is given for more long term counselling . |
| 2 | It is possible for the race to be won at very long odds , and on two or three occasions , assisted by Wigg , I had been able to locate the winning horse , or at least a horse in the first three , which , if the odds were long enough , nevertheless produced a satisfactory result . |
| 3 | Ever since she had left school Paula had worked in one of the big department stores in Bristol and she loved it , although the lengthy journey made for very long days and the bus fares ate holes in her meagre salary . |
| 4 | The real giants were the lumbering sauropods ( Diplodocus , Brachiosaurus , etc. ) , four-legged dinosaurs , with enormously long necks only matched by equally long tails . |
| 5 | The deepest headings , approx. 14cm ( 5 ½in ) , are used with particularly long curtains to give a better proportion and are sold in two varieties — one for use with a track , the other with a pole . |
| 6 | If they 're offered at very long odds , the statistics demonstrate even more clearly although the odds are long they 're not long enough to make the be fair . |
| 7 | In general , though , they vary from long-oval in shape to almost globular , are borne on rather long peduncles and , by now , will have almost entirely lost the wizened remains of the flower 's calyx . |
| 8 | Eight authors and seven illustrators have been placed on unusually long shortlists for the Carnegie and Greenaway Awards . |
| 9 | But the four-ball format was unwieldy and led to extraordinarily long rounds of five hours or more . |
| 10 | For example , at lambing time many wives put in very long hours . |
| 11 | Above all it is important for the staff planning groups to decide what ‘ interdisciplinary ’ work or topic work will actually mean for the learner in practice , and choice will depend in part on the school 's view of the ‘ whole picture ’ spread across quite long periods of time , with the teachers planning carefully how they intend to create a balanced curriculum over weeks and months . |
| 12 | power considerations will usually give way to efficiency — at least in profit-making enterprises , if observations are taken at sufficiently long intervals [ … |
| 13 | I mean , I 'm sorry … " he looked at Grace out of blue eyes fringed with ridiculously long lashes . |