Example sentences of "of a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tito , at the age of 87 , was forced to stay alive for a few extra weeks by the vigorous application of every last trick of the medical trade , including the use of a kidney machine , long after it was apparent that he had reached the end of a pretty long road . |
| 2 | ‘ I shall ask your indulgence of a rather long exposition , Mr Chairman . |
| 3 | She had , to hand , the lavatory brush , three toilet rolls and the hardback edition of a very long novel by a Peruvian author with an unpronounceable name . |
| 4 | On the whole , they appear as keen at the end of a very long day as at the beginning . |
| 5 | This may be the middle of the afternoon to you , to me it 's evening — and the end of a very long day . ’ |
| 6 | Certain ancient stains along the approach corridor — which resembled the rib cage of a very long whale — had suggested that those ribs could clash shut at any sign of unwelcome visitors , imprisoning or crushing intruders . |
| 7 | Only at the end of a very long career did he occasionally depart from the highest standards of restrained good taste . |
| 8 | The organ here is a fine instrument , well played by Bernard Gavoty , and this account takes its place at or near the top of a very long list . |
| 9 | For either Concerto , this new disc deserves a place close to the top of a very long list . |
| 10 | It 's like being a very little fish on the end of a very long line . ’ |
| 11 | Statements by the West German Bundesbank indicate that it views monetary union as a state which comes only at the end of a very long process of economic convergence . |
| 12 | So here we are today , almost at the end of a very long process , having experienced a wide ranging debate about the future of Greater York and numerous consultation exercises . |
| 13 | It is the end of a very long era . |
| 14 | The capacity rules are just part of a now long list of rules and regulations that surround university life , and make extra demands on the time and freedom of academics . |
| 15 | Today those cross bunkers were in range of a really long drive . |
| 16 | To the earliest Christian communities Jesus was not the founder or originator of the community of God 's people , but the climax of an already long story of a divine education of humanity through the special illumination given to the prophets of Israel . |
| 17 | So each replicator is potentially the ‘ ancestor ’ of an indefinitely long line of descendant replicators , stretching into the distant future , and branching to produce , potentially , an exceedingly large number of descendant replicators . |
| 18 | The possibility of an indefinitely long list of necessary indices or co-ordinates thus has to be faced . |