Example sentences of "a fairly long " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be contrasted with the centesimal scale where we may have to wait a fairly long time to ascertain the action of the remedy . |
| 2 | If this involves a fairly long distance through cold parts of the house , you may have to buy metal dish covers , plate warmers and Thermos flasks to keep the food and drinks warm . |
| 3 | Phases A ( which must be shorter ) and C are the ‘ roads and tracks ’ , a fairly long distance to be ridden at a speed of 220 metres per minute , ( a good trot , on average ) . |
| 4 | On the next cast I touch-leger again , only with a fairly long loop of line pulled out from between butt-ring and reel ( see pages 15–17 ) . |
| 5 | A fairly long search produced the account book for the club which existed from 1886 until 1920 ( with a break during the war years ) . |
| 6 | Where you have a fairly long shelf , it is wise to add a horizontal back support . |
| 7 | The extended families are split up as the men move first , to be followed only after a fairly long interval by wives and children and often never by other relatives . |
| 8 | Britain has a fairly long winter , and I know of only a few very hardy souls who are willing to go gold prospecting during this season . |
| 9 | There were several motives which might bring a man to commit himself to a fairly long period ( eight years in France from 1762 onwards ) of military service . |
| 10 | Another way of stating this point would be to say that the revival and growth of social movements in those societies which are both economically advanced and have a fairly long tradition of democracy , is a major aspect of that ‘ self-production ’ of society referred to earlier , which exists in some degree already , but is still more an ideal representation of a future form of society , ‘ free of domination ’ , in which the collectivity would really govern itself , by procedures of rational discussion among equal citizens . |
| 11 | You know a fairly long stack could take a couple of days . |
| 12 | It is becoming a tradition in our family ( extended by friends ) to do a fairly long walk between Christmas and the New Year , to walk off some of the effects of the turkey and tone up the system for the usual see-the-New- Year-in celebrations . |
| 13 | As West has 6 Hearts , he is likely to be short in all the other suits , and with East returning the King of Clubs , there is a suggestion that he has a fairly long suit . |
| 14 | Can I say first of all that er I support the general approach which has been adopted by Yorkshire County Council and the the other local authorities in the Greater York area , on the way in which they 've formulated their proposals for the York greenbelt after a fairly long erm and exhausting process , the question to which I want to address my comments first of all is whether the new settlement is an appropriate and justified planning response , and what I would like to do if I may is look at some of the reasons that have been raised erm in objection to the new settlement as a strategy , erm these issues have been raised by Hambledon District , York City Council , the C P R E , Montague Evans , in their written submissions to the examination of the . |
| 15 | Moreover , a secretary attached to a legation or an embassy and not to an individual minister or ambassador , and remaining at his post over a fairly long period , could become a valuable source of information about local conditions : this might be of great help to a new head of mission coming to a strange country of which he knew little . |
| 16 | Fortunately we had a doctor in our congregation who er was s had some knowledge of psychiatry and he had a fairly long session with him , just the two of them . |
| 17 | But that 's a fairly long job though . |
| 18 | and I remember one particular February , it will always stand out in my mind because er , it 's a fairly long walk done to the factory from , from here and every day after the midday meal , when I set out to walk down there as quick as I could it had been cloudy since , it was raining , every day without fail I used to get to work soaked , first |
| 19 | And depending whether it 's a rectangular plot or whether it is n't or not or if it 's slightly at an angle then some of the corner houses have a fairly long gardens . |
| 20 | What we try to do is to make available to people opportunities for study in depth and over a fairly long period of time , on issues and in subjects which are part of University activity . |