Example sentences of "in [art] [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the greatest injustice to genuine asylum seekers is to be found in the enormously long delays that occur in the processing of applications ? |
| 2 | In the enormously long statement which followed the Communists were branded as ‘ Vipers in the bosom ’ . |
| 3 | In the very long run , the actions of a Colombian warlord may reverberate in your family , but railing against him is a waste of time . |
| 4 | First , workers as the majority group in the electorate might rationally choose to maintain capitalism , not because they are duped by the dominant ideology but because their individual interests are better met under redistributive capitalism than through a painful transition to socialism , which could only conceivably deliver net benefits in the very long run . |
| 5 | They had been long debated , but it should be emphasized how few individuals at this time believed that poverty could actually be eliminated , except perhaps in the very long run . |
| 6 | The aim is to minimise costs in the very long term but the important question is the extent to which this may conflict with the short-run costs of pursuing diversity . |
| 7 | In the very long term , automated machinery is likely to incorporate automatic diagnostic equipment in order to simplify maintenance , but it is not obvious that this will necessarily reduce the skill content of craft maintenance work . |
| 8 | Certainly he did not regard large-scale state intervention as having any effect except in the very long term , since the causal conditions are located ultimately in cultural attitudes , not in the factors on which state intervention operates . |
| 9 | She indulged in a blissfully long bath , taking time to wash her hair and then comb it out , before drying it with a hand drier . |
| 10 | And , that , it has n't changed , in a very long while . |
| 11 | Then the man spoke his first word in a very long time as he looked at Beth panting away . |
| 12 | That he did n't manage to cover the remaining 146 miles does n't really matter , for his peregrination from Battery Park to Times Square makes one of the most intriguing accounts of an asphalt jungle to have appeared in a very long time . |
| 13 | Pleased and strangely girlish , which was a feeling she had not had in a very long time . |
| 14 | Foinavon was the first horse over the twenty-third and found himself in a very long lead . |
| 15 | I was a very small link in an immensely long chain . |
| 16 | In an indefinitely long game , the important point is that we can both win at the expense of the banker , rather than at the expense of one another . |