Example sentences of "[num ord] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 2 October of the same year William Jowett Titford , great-grandson of William the Emigrant , wrote to his mother in London : ‘ The father of our relation W. C. Titford died at Frome June 6th after a long illness ’ . |
| 2 | He gestured towards the first of a long row of recuperation pods , where Christine LaFayette 's face was visible through a clear plastic window . |
| 3 | Hervey , a Breton , was appointed bishop , the first of a long series of members of the English royal court to be provided with a Welsh see : he was also the first bishop in Wales to come under the authority of an English archbishop . |
| 4 | One of the first of a long series of attempts to reconstruct the facts behind the records was undertaken by Hermann Samuel Reimarus ( 1694 — 1768 ) in his Apology for the Reasonable Worshippers of God . |
| 5 | The Director-General of RTF was appointed by the government ( as were the heads of state or public service radio and TV until 1982 ) : the ‘ DG ’ appointed in 1946 , Vladimir Porche , held his post for 11 years ; but governments conceived of broadcasting as a state administration , and Porche himself — a ‘ counseiller d'etat ’ — was the first of a long series of ‘ counseillers d'etat ’ , prefects and top civil servants to head the state broadcasting organizations , RTF and ORTF ( i.e. until 1974 ) . |
| 6 | He is the first of a long line of distinguished French portrait sculptors . |
| 7 | Mike Gatting , first of a long line of England captains in 1988 . |
| 8 | In vitro fertilisation is only the first of a long line of reproductive technologies which may be developed in the future . |
| 9 | Phil was the first of a long list of people to tackle this challenge — abseiling down the 170 feet of the electrical engineering tower . |
| 10 | But in 1984 , Arthur succumbed to an obscure lung complaint that almost killed him , the first of a long list of lay-offs throughout his career . |
| 11 | Palafox and Romana are thus the first of a long succession of generals who claimed that the army officers embodied the general will of the nation , perverted by a selfish clique of unpopular politicians . |
| 12 | This became the first in a long line of medieval whodunnits featuring an unusual detective , a 12th-century Benedictine monk named Brother Cadfael : when he is n't tending his herb garden , Cadfael is using his knowledge to solve a seemingly endless series of murders and mysterious disappearances . |
| 13 | Charlemagne was succeeded in 814 by his son Louis the Pious ( Louis I of France ) , the first in a long line of French kings to be crowned at Reims . |
| 14 | It was to be the first in a long line of pay battles that would give her a reputation for being one of the toughest negotiators in the business . |
| 15 | Equally personal is Janet Smith 's The World Outside My Window , the first piece she has made since disbanding her company and the first in a long time that she has made to please herself . |
| 16 | In that household , it 's likely that adults come first by a long way ; children are expected to conform , and tidiness takes precedence over fun . |
| 17 | Peter Skinner , regional general manager , Asia and East Africa , died peacefully on Wednesday October 14th after a long illness which both he and his family had fought against with great courage . |
| 18 | Construction of the 12 sun saloons in the English Electric East Works in 1939 — the last of a long line . |
| 19 | However their peace is short-lived when they meet the charming Nick Buckley , the last of a long line of Buckleys inhabiting ‘ End House ’ , which is poised in isolation on a rocky point visible from the hotel . |
| 20 | The retirement of Sergeant Merrey marked the end of another era — not only the departure of a friend and character , but the last of a long line of School Sergeants going back to the appointment of Sgt. Sash in 1888 . |
| 21 | Although , as Marc Raeff has pointed out , it was their methods rather than their aims which were at fault , it was nevertheless the inefficient , inhumane and corrupt administration of Siberia under Pestel and Treskin , last of a long line of government-appointed regional tyrants , that was to be tackled with such determination by Alexander 's brilliant bureaucrat and disgraced official , Mikhail Speranskii ( 1722–1839 ) . |
| 22 | Islam teaches its adherents that the prophet Mohammed was the last of a long line of prophets who proclaimed the one true God . |
| 23 | Her identity is widely known in the village , but her wishes are respected and her name will not be revealed here She is the last of a long line of illustrious cheesemakers and her regular clients can only hope that she will pass on her expertise to the next generation . |
| 24 | At that point , rather late one night , he and I had the last of a long sequence of talks . |
| 25 | We know that in the eleventh century the Jurassic Way in Oxfordshire was the main road to Northampton , probably joining it with the important town of Gloucester , and throughout the Middle Ages it was a market-road , linking one market town with the next in a long series . |
| 26 | The human growth hormone is the next in a long line of chemicals to be manufactured industrially , using recombinant-DNA techniques . |
| 27 | Naas Botha and his team play their first international in England since 1969 — and it could be their last in a long while . |
| 28 | Somewhat surprisingly , given the avowed centrality of curriculum development in the project , " linking the centre closely to the curriculum of the school " appears only as the last in a long list of implementation steps . |
| 29 | The final touch to the forward line came with seventeen-year-old Cliff Bastin , costing £2,000 from Exeter City , who was to be the last in a long line of Chapman discoveries that began with Fanny Walden twenty years before . |
| 30 | The Dzhungar state , the last in a long line of typical steppe nomad conglomerates descended from Genghis Khan 's empire , also claimed the more southerly zone where lay the headwaters of the Ob-Irtysh river system . |