Example sentences of "from [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the sight of herself in the mirror , an image of herself from so long ago , all the shock came back , taking her by surprise . |
| 2 | The pattern was most conspicuous in the loyalist working-class urban districts from not long after the imposition of ‘ direct rule ’ until the second general strike of May 1977 . |
| 3 | Fragments of lacquerware have been excavated dating from as long ago as the Shang Dynasty ( from about 1700 to about 1000 BC ) , but it was during the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC to AD 220 ) that lacquer painting flourished . |
| 4 | It has been a principle championed in the fiction of Kingsley Amis , from as long ago as Luck Jim , that ‘ nice things are nicer than nasty things . ’ |
| 5 | But , again , we must beware the limits of anecdotal evidence ; several of Ryder 's examples are from the 1930s and 1940s ( and one from as long ago as 1909 ) and would breach today 's legal standards . |
| 6 | For some , this depth is seen as having imposed an institutional bias and rigidity on the economy from as long ago as the late nineteenth century . |
| 7 | In particular , Chandra Talpade Mohanty 's essay seems odd , devoted as it is to a detailed comparison of essays from as long ago as 1981 and 1984 , in which she takes issue with Robin Morgan 's universalist feminism . |
| 8 | The blue eyes watched her from beneath long black lashes . |
| 9 | He gave her a mocking glance from beneath long black lashes . |
| 10 | When , pulses racing in a most disturbing manner , she tried to withdraw her arm his grip tightened , and he slanted her a glance from beneath long thick lashes that held a distinct challenge . |
| 11 | Robert , his 37-year-old face tanned from too long under harsh polar skies , is full of praise for his new bride . |