Example sentences of "[vb pp] for the long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As my hon. Friend rightly said , the construction of the 08 , the fourth boat , is currently under way and authorities have been given for the long lead items .
2 The official definition of long-term unemployment is more than twelve months without work , although employment training , which is designed for the long term unemployed , requires entrants to have been on the register for more than six months .
3 As a new word is read from the ASCII file , the head list is searched for the longest string available from the start of the word .
4 We saw our chance , and hastily we packed up and prepared for the long trek back the way we had come , to the Youth Hostel .
5 So in December 1177 in exchange for 15,000 livres angevines ( roughly £4000 ) and forty pack animals — clearly intended to be used for the long pilgrimage to Jerusalem — Henry acquired the whole county of La Marche .
6 They had invested for the long term , if not in imperial unity ( and significantly , nothing was said at Worms about emperorship or empire ) , then in the coexistence of Lothar and Charles in the regnum francorum .
7 A variety of reasons were proffered for the long delay in setting the seal on a deal but drummer Gary Murdoch maintains that ‘ we 've had a string of managers who did n't really know their job ’ .
8 Have you gone for the longer length ?
9 Begin the list with the projects that have been waiting to be finished for the longest period of time .
10 Have you planned for the longest holiday of your life — your retirement ?
11 The hon. Gentleman knows that I believe that the Iraqi people will be safeguarded for the long term and enable the international community to give long-term development aid to that country only when Saddam Hussein is no longer at the helm in Baghdad .
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