Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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1 | The wounded took a long time to arrive . |
2 | The two noddies are fairly similar , but the lesser has a longer beak and the brown , as its name suggests , has a paler brown back . |
3 | ‘ The British have a long history of being inventive and in this current climate we are being inundated with new ideas , ’ says Richard Paine , marketing director of Inventalink , one of Britain 's biggest agencies which sells the ideas to commercial companies . |
4 | The first reaches a long ledge ( not on the route but on the landward face ) approximately 60ft ( 18m ) above the base . |
5 | Only the last survived a long complicated life as a passion , and led to her single-handed revival of the eighteenth-century art of shell pictures , an obsessive pursuit of Irish aristocratic ladies in the time of Sheridan and Goldsmith . |