Example sentences of "this [noun] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this technique has a long ancestry in the Old World it was unknown in the Americas until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century . |
| 2 | This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times . |
| 3 | This fish has a long , flattened body covered in large , iridescent scales that reflect the light beautifully . |
| 4 | ‘ The writer of this article lives a long way from Washington and would not know the answers to these questions . ’ |
| 5 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 6 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 7 | This distinction has a long and respectable history . |
| 8 | But then , all this business happened a long time ago . |
| 9 | He called in his full executive to meet us and I 'm sure at the end of the day that this meeting went a long way to the tour going ahead instead of being cancelled ’ . |
| 10 | Large and secretive , this wrasse has a long body of up to 45 centimetres . |
| 11 | follow the pattern , but there again this stuff goes a long way |
| 12 | Regaining this knowledge involved a long and hazardous series of amphibious raids in which the clandestine activities of SOE and the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ) , as well as the commandos , became involved . |
| 13 | The sweet taste of this victory lingered a long time on the lips of Dublin dykes . |
| 14 | Her later research in this area involved a long study of the complex genetic interactions in Matthiola incana , on which she published twenty-two papers . |
| 15 | It might be early days but this approach falls a long way short of forging a relationship with the viewer and when he turned to the big screen to ask a reporter a single question , it came across as completely contrived . |
| 16 | This innovation permits a longer arm and makes for better control of front suspension movement . |
| 17 | This walk involves a long moorland climb in the shadow of high rocky peaks . |
| 18 | The same research also shows , however , that the ‘ class ’ basis of support for the parties is now weakening significantly , and that even at its peak this phenomenon fell a long way short of the Marxist conception of political ‘ class consciousness ’ . |
| 19 | This country has a long tradition of accepting genuine political refugees , but there is no doubt that the fact that three quarters of all applications are made by people who have been living in this country for weeks , months and , in some cases , years , is tantamount to an abuse of the system . |
| 20 | This plant has a long leaf form which is found in the lowlands where the temperature is substantially high . |
| 21 | Sweetman paused again , this time to light a long pale blue cigarette with a slim gold lighter . |