Example sentences of "to [noun] after [art] long " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Whenever we came back to Woodbrook after a long absence , the servants would always have a fire and a meal ready to greet us , ’ Phoebe 's sister Antoinette once told me . |
2 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
3 | The secretary of the planning committee that examined the project was an MI6 officer called George Blake who had recently returned to England after a long spell of captivity in Korea . |
4 | Derek Warwick , returning to Interlagos after a long absence , found it tough going in his Footwork Mugen Honda and ended up 19th on the provisional grid . |
5 | Young people , the unemployed and women returning to work after a long period at home will have to show extra ingenuity to extract evidence of their work skills and potential from their life history . |
6 | If you are taken to Harmondsworth after a long journey and several hours of interrogation by Immigration Officers , there is nowhere for you to lie down and rest . |
7 | I have the same new-worldliness of someone who emerges to sunlight after a long illness in a darkened room . |
8 | In 1979 , when it came to power after a long and vicious civil war the new government detained between 7,000 and 8,000 former members of the National Guard . |