Example sentences of "of [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the eighteenth century it was more and more usual for an ambassador accredited to any of the greatest European courts to be given it , irrespective of how long he stayed there or what his duties were . |
| 32 | But in May 1958 even that show came to an end — a London bus strike was killing business , which also gives some idea of how long ago that was . |
| 33 | The Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food ( MAFF ) has revised its estimates of how long the BSE epidemic will take to die out , following the discovery of an infected calf , which probably inherited the disease from its mother . |
| 34 | mm could we have the , do either of you have the experience of how long , how long this might take |
| 35 | ‘ Oh , lord ! ’ she sighed , but asked hopefully , ‘ Did they give any indication of how long … ? ’ |
| 36 | Fabia had no idea of how long she lay there feeling beaten , but , as she put out her small light and closed her eyes , she just did n't need to have anything more land on her plate of despair . |
| 37 | IT IS now not just a question of how long can John Major survive , but whether the Tory Government can stay its term . |
| 38 | Middlesbrough kept their composure in a tense finale , though skipper Jimmy Phillips was a little confused with messages of how long there was to go . |
| 39 | You should also give your client an indication of how long the appointment is going to take . |
| 40 | right , what I would suggest , is somebody take , what I was going to say is if you time me reading this , okay we get an idea of how long exactly we need to make . |
| 41 | Don and Steven made the most accurate estimates of how long it would take Courtaulds InterSpray , the Group 's entry in the race , to reach Rio de Janeiro from Southampton on the first leg . |
| 42 | One sort of explanation sees such practices as permanent employment and seniority wage systems as being related to Japan 's unique cultural traditions and the carry-over to modern industry of patterns of social relationships and obligations which characterised feudal Japan.7 Other , perhaps more convincing , approaches ( as these practices are not characteristic of smaller-sized firms ) see them as an employer response to the exigencies of the labour market and as a control device to elicit and reward loyal workforce behaviour ( Jacoby , 1979 ) , since lifetime employment is not a practice of very long standing in Japan . |
| 43 | The danger for the Government is that it may all come just a bit too late to expunge the memories of our current travails and of too long a period of neglect for the supply-side of the economy to respond . |
| 44 | All the quality papers led with an assessment of Too Long a Winter , and marvelled at the astonishing life led by this old lady with the gleaming white hair in that frozen lonely Yorkshire dale . |
| 45 | Hannah went too , and the cameras followed Mrs Field 's forthright manner , allied to a distinct sense of humour and a stentorian voice , made a deep impression on the director and his crew — and on the television critics of the major newspapers , to judge by the reviews published the day after the first of many transmissions of Too Long a Winter . |
| 46 | Mrs Field demonstrates her technique with the hunting horn during the filming of Too Long a Winter in 1972 ( Courtesy of Yorkshire Television ) |
| 47 | Olive 's spirit and capacity to command never diminished Apparently , she hugely enjoyed her part in the filming of Too Long a Winter and liked the programme . |
| 48 | It is possible to start with 1.2A after 1.1Z , but this is symptomatic of too long a period between approvals . |